Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
HAILE SELASSIEMahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.
More Haile Selassie Quotes
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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.
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We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.
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Unity should be the cornerstone of relations.
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He [the Almighty] taught us that all human beings are equal regardless of sex, national origin and tribe. And He also taught us all who seek Him shall find Him.
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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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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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Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess.
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Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.
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It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.
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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
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An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty God that he would bless the results for us
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Leadership does not mean domination.
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Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.
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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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Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
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A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility.
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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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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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One cannot deny that in former times man’s life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man’s life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.
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Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?
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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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Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.
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The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding.
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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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