You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.

- Joe Slovo

I think a legitimate target is the enemy and [the] enemy is basically in uniform, but not all [are] in Uniform. For example in the rural areas, our j…

- Joe Slovo

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

- Joe Slovo

One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.

- Joe Slovo

We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive …

- Joe Slovo

Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.

- Joe Slovo

We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well.

- Joe Slovo

Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of th…

- Joe Slovo

There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists.

- Joe Slovo