Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself? — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Do the people of the world not yet realize that by fighting on until the bitter end I am not only performing… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his… — 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… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with… — 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
