“Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.”

We will defend our victory through armed struggle. We will have to do that.

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

I am an educationist. I’m an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?

It’s not possible that women can be at par with men.

Only God who appointed me will remove me.

Don’t drink at all, don’t smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.

Dont fight even over girlfriends. The country is full of beautiful women. If you cant get one, come to Mugabe for assistance.

Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on rather than send it to your mum and you realise witchcraft is real.

Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans; so are its resources.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

There are things one must do for oneself.

Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

We are not hungry. Why foist this food upon us? We don’t want to be choked. We have enough.

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

When we point to obstacles we inhibit progress. When we offer solutions we advance.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.