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 — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements. — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans. — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
In the mystic traditions of the different religions we have a remarkable unity of spirit. Whatever religion they may profess, they are spiritual kinsmen.… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual satisfaction to him. It… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
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… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
It is much easier to show compassions to animals. They are never wicked. — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made. — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
