As man’s faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life.
HAILE SELASSIEWe have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
More Haile Selassie Quotes
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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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Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.
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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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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.
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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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It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.
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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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Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
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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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Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier? All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions.
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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 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 house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down.
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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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