All Sayings

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

No doubt I shall emerge from it all a different man, but quite who I've not found out.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die.

The seas of the four directions – all are born of one womb: why, then, do the wind and waves rise in discord?

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

It is well known that the Black race is the most oppressed and most exploited of the human family.

Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.

Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake.

I rule Uganda because Uganda needs my strength.

You must sacrifice every thought, every ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood.

An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.

The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.

A minimum of comfort is necessary for the practice of virtue.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I owe the public nothing.