Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
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More Haile Selassie Quotes
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Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?
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Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
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Leadership does not mean domination.
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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.
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Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?
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There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of our people merits as much attention as its spiritual welfare
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A man who says “I have learned enough and will learn no further” should be considered as knowing nothing at all.
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Feel the needs of others more than your own.
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Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily
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Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.
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Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.
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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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A well organized education should not be one which prepares students for a good remuneration alone. It should be one that can help and guide them towards acquiring clear thinking, a fruitful mind, and an elevated spirit.
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The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.
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You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.
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The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.
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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.
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We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
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There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.
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It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.
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There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.
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Unity should be the cornerstone of relations.
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