Haile Selassie Quotes, Firsts Quotes

You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Firsts Quotes

In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Men Quotes , Differences Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Country Quotes , War Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Men Quotes , People Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Men Quotes , Issues Quotes

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Authority Quotes

Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Men Quotes , Long Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Strong Quotes , Government Quotes

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Animal Quotes , Compassion Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Men Quotes , World Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Procrastination Quotes , Should Have Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Rain Quotes , Fall Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Strength Quotes , Differences Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Mean Quotes , Men Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Leader Quotes , Inspire Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Strong Quotes , Rain Quotes

Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Mean Quotes , People Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Book Quotes , Open Minded Quotes

The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Men Quotes , Rights Quotes

It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Important Quotes