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 SELASSIEObserve 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.
More Haile Selassie Quotes
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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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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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No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.
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We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
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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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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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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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It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.
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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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Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?
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Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
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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 good leader maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.
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Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless.
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Leadership does not mean domination.
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Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
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We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
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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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Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.
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The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding.
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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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Place principle above all else.
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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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Feel the needs of others more than your own.
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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.
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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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