Robert Mugabe

Zimbabwean leader

Contemporary influential 122 sayings

Sayings by Robert Mugabe

President Barack Obama came to Africa saying Africa must allow gay marriages... God destroyed the Earth because of these sins. Weddings are for a man and a woman.

2013-2017 — On Obama and gay marriage
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective, justice for his own people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people. If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold.

2003-2014 — On his leadership
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

I asked one ANC Minister how come the whites have been left with so much power, and he said it was because of your friend Mandela. That was an ANC Minister who was saying that. Mandela went too far in doing good to the non-black communities, really in some cases at the expense of (blacks)… That's being too saintly, too good.

2013 — On Nelson Mandela
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

I asked one ANC Minister how come the whites have been left with so much power, and he said it was because of your friend Mandela. That was an ANC Minister who was saying that. Mandela went too far in doing good to the non-black communities, really in some cases at the expense of (blacks)… That's being too saintly, too good.

2013 — On Nelson Mandela
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

The British were brought up as a violent people, liars, scoundrels and crooks… I am told that [Tony] Blair was a troublesome little boy at school.

2001 — On Britain and Tony Blair
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The British were brought up as a violent people, liars, scoundrels and crooks… I am told that [Tony] Blair was a troublesome little boy at school.

2001 — On Britain and Tony Blair
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

Britain is a very cold, uninhabitable country with small houses.

2014 — On Britain
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

Britain is a very cold, uninhabitable country with small houses.

2014 — On Britain
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

John and John, no; Maria and Maria, no. They are worse than dogs and pigs. I keep pigs and the male pig knows the female one.

2014-2015 — On gay people
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

John and John, no; Maria and Maria, no. They are worse than dogs and pigs. I keep pigs and the male pig knows the female one.

2014-2015 — On gay people
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

It is not worthy of discussion. Those that engage in such acts are insane. We cannot tolerate this, otherwise the dead will rise against us.

2014 — On gay rights
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

It is not worthy of discussion. Those that engage in such acts are insane. We cannot tolerate this, otherwise the dead will rise against us.

2014 — On gay rights
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

The UK set gay gangsters on me.

2014 — On Tony Blair's tactics
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The UK set gay gangsters on me.

2014 — On Tony Blair's tactics
Strange & Unusual Disputed

We are not gays!

2015 — During UN General Assembly address
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

We are not gays!

2015 — During UN General Assembly address
Strange & Unusual Disputed

Only God who appointed me will remove me -- not the MDC, not the British. Only God will remove me!

2008 — Election rally
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

Cricket civilises people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

Unknown — Unclear when said, widely reported
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

Cricket civilises people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

Unknown — Unclear when said, widely reported
Strange & Unusual Disputed

Our economy is a hundred times better than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe? … What is lacking now are goods on the shelves – that is all.

2007 — Interview
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable