Haile Selassie

A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment…

— Haile Selassie

Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common…

— Haile Selassie

An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

— Haile Selassie

Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has…

— Haile Selassie

In the mystic traditions of the different religions we have a remarkable unity of spirit. Whatever religion they may profess, they are…

— Haile Selassie

That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual satisfaction to…

— Haile Selassie

Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as…

— Haile Selassie

That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there…

— Haile Selassie

A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be…

— Haile Selassie

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

— Haile Selassie

In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and…

— Haile Selassie

We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.

— Haile Selassie

Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess

— Haile Selassie

The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his…

— Haile Selassie

Do the people of the world not yet realize that by fighting on until the bitter end I am not only performing…

— Haile Selassie

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.

— Haile Selassie

We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?

— Haile Selassie

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your…

— Haile Selassie

We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully...

— Haile Selassie

The love shown by our God to mankind should constrain all of us who are followers and disciples of Christ, to do…

— Haile Selassie

Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a…

— Haile Selassie

I have heard of that idea [i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ]. I also met certain Rastafarians. I…

— Haile Selassie

A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be…

— Haile Selassie

There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with…

— Haile Selassie

Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.

— Haile Selassie