Life & Death Sayings

We must not only be good at destroying the old world, we must also be good at building the new.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself. And a few other things, like the Japanese, the Germans, and the Italians.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

I am not a fan of the telephone. It is a devil's instrument.

The struggle for power is a struggle for life and death.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

When I die, I do not want to be buried in a common grave. I want to be buried in a place where I can see the sea.

I am not afraid of anyone. I am not afraid of death.

The old will die and the young will forget.

To be or not to be is not a question of philosophy, but a question of life and death.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

The evil of colonialism was that it sought to empty the African mind and replace it with the European mind.

The blood of the Congolese people will not be shed in vain.

The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.