Africa Quote by Mo Ibrahim

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism.

— Mo Ibrahim

“Do you understand, Jakob?” the apothecary whispered. “This isn’t war; this is worse. The war was fought according to bloody rules, but faith is…

— Oliver Pötzsch

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that…

— John Stuart Mill

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

— Herodotus

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that…

— John Stuart Mill

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing…

— John Stuart Mill

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

— Seneca the Younger

The Enlightenment faith that things are getting a little bit better each decade becomes difficult to support. People recognized that there had just been…

— Christine Jennings

“I have seen something of the horrors of war, and much too much of the worse horrors of peace.”

— H.L. Mencken

“How big a war?" "A worse one than the one fifty years ago, I expect," said Cheery. "I don't recall people talking about that…

— Terry Pratchett

“There was a time when slavery was good. It did its work, and when it finished creating capital it withered and died a natural…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Obama remains frozen in his father's time machine. His anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of Africa in the 1950s: state confiscation of land, confiscatory taxation,…

— Dinesh D'Souza