Haile Selassie on material
Haile Selassie67 quotes“It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.”
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Everyone, in all walks of life, regardless of his professional occupation should feel concerned and play an active role to solve such problems which affect mankind.
Haile SelassieHaile Selassie Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life.
Haile SelassieHaile Selassie History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
Haile SelassieHaile Selassie Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
Haile SelassieHaile Selassie Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess.
Haile SelassieHaile Selassie Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
Haile SelassieHaile Selassie Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.
Haile SelassieHaile Selassie Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
Haile SelassieHaile Selassie I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.
Haile SelassieHaile Selassie Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily
Haile SelassieHaile Selassie It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.
Haile SelassieHaile Selassie A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation’s development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated.
Haile SelassieHaile Selassie There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions – they lead to defeat.
Haile SelassieHaile Selassie We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
Haile SelassieHaile Selassie There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.
Haile SelassieHaile Selassie If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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Aisha TylerAisha Tyler We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei “We will coordinate efforts of the PLO with responsible authorities in Jordan in all fields – politically, militarily and materially.
Ahmad ShukeiriAhmad Shukeiri Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei You know, even though I’m in fashion, I don’t, like, do fashion. Fashion isn’t me, even though I work in it. It’s just materialistic stuff.
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