17 Quotes by Alexander Dubcek

Socialism with a human face.

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

The program proclaimed a return to freedom of the press and proposed the adoption of a press law that would clearly exclude prepublication censorship.

In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened.

In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces.

In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.

You can crush the flowers, but you can’t stop the spring.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I’m expecting the worst for myself and I’m resigned to it.