All Sayings

I am Shaka, the unshakeable! I am the king of the heavens!

I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it!

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

I wish to be left in peace. I do not wish to be in contact with the white man, nor do I wish to be disturbed by him.

I have killed many; I have scalped many. I have captured women and children. I have done all that is bad. But I did it to defend my people.

As long as you're green you're growing, as soon as you're ripe you start to rot.

The mind is like white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those that were of no use.

I am Cyrus, king of the world, great king, legitimate king, king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four quarters of the earth.

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

I think, therefore I am.

The greater part of mankind are more governed by interest than by reason.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole.