50+ Haile Selassie Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.
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Alone Man Food Intellectual Soul
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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Animal Compassion Easy
We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.
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Act Future History Leaving Past
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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Feeling Life Man Play Problem Role Walk
Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life.
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Development Education Intellectual Life Man
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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Difference Goal History Ourselves Path Strength Teaching Unity
Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
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God Man Myself Religious
Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess.
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Believe Goal Ourselves
Observe 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.
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Country Death Freedom Men Peace War
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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Men Moments Opportunity Ourselves Power Preparation Strength
Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
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Creation Destroy Doubt Knowledge Power
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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Illusion Issues Live Men Myself Security
Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily
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Achievement Care Children Father Worth
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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Deal Death Enemy Men Stop War
A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation’s development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated.
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Development Growth Intelligence Opinion Politics Progress
There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions – they lead to defeat.
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Ambition Courage Decision Defeat Emotion People Weakness
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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Courage Greatness Human Nation Race Spirit
There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.
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Action Divine Ourselves Safety Teaching
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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Destroy God Government History Judgement People Remember Strong Weakness
Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?
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Democracy Politics Word
Leadership does not mean domination.
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Dominate Leadership One Liner
Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.
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Freedom Justice Live Long Men Remember
We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
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Progress Slow Success
Place principle above all else.
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Character One Liner Place Principle
It is both the duty and responsibility of the world’s fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many.
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Help Kindness Poor Responsibility World
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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Art Expectation Grace Material Sacrifice Tree
As man’s faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life.
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Development Himself Life Man

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