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My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. Therefore my lifetime motto is: "The people are my God."

— Kim Il-sung

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The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.

On Juche in Our Revolution vol. 2 (1977)

The revolution itself originates from a dream of the future or from the craving for a new life.

As fish cannot live without water, so guerrillas cannot live without the people.

Socialism is a human ideal, an inevitable course of historical development, and therefore it is perfectly clear that socialism will rise again in the end.

War is not only a contest of strength, but also a test of morality and ethics.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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