Haile Selassie
We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?Collection: Jobs
Everyone, in all walks of life, regardless of his professional occupation should feel concerned and play an active role to solve such problems which affect mankind.Collection: Play
There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of our people merits as much attention as its spiritual welfareCollection: Spiritual
The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palaceCollection: People
As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’Collection: Successful
A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utilityCollection: Art
Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.Collection: Country
If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty God that he would bless the results for usCollection: Bless
Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?Collection: Ideas
A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down.Collection: Strong
As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in lifeCollection: Men
Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.Collection: Men
One cannot deny that in former times man's life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man's life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.Collection: Men
Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.Collection: Real
A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulatedCollection: Errors
It is both the duty and responsibility of the world's fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate manyCollection: Responsibility
We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.Collection: Past
There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.Collection: Teaching
Leadership does not mean domination.Collection: Mean
In the mystic traditions of the different religions we have a remarkable unity of spirit. Whatever religion they may profess, they are spiritual kinsmen. While the different religions in their historic forms bind us to limited groups and militate against the development of loyalty to the world community, the mystics have already stood for the fellowship of humanity in harmony with the spirit of the mystics of ages gone by.Collection: Loyalty
A good leader... maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.Collection: Emotional
It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.Collection: War
Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his lifeCollection: Men
A well organized education should not be one which prepares students for a good remuneration alone. It should be one that can help and guide them towards acquiring clear thinking, a fruitful mind, and an elevated spirit.Collection: Thinking
We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.Collection: Progress
There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.Collection: Responsibility
In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.Collection: Men
Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.Collection: Mean
The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.Collection: Leader
Do the people of the world not yet realize that by fighting on until the bitter end I am not only performing my sacred duty to my people, but standing guard in the last citadel of collective security? Are they too blind to see that I have my responsibilities to the whole of humanity to face? I must still hold on until my tardy allies appear. And if they never come, then I say prophetically and without bitterness: The West will perish.Collection: Responsibility
I have heard of that idea [i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ]. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal, and that...they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that the human being is emanated from a deity.Collection: Mistake
That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual satisfaction to him. It will be self deceiving and a waste of time to advocate dialogue with those who are not ready to listen, because it is obvious that the freedom of millions is not a commodity subject to bargaining. It is better to die free than to live as slaves.Collection: Dream
The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewardingCollection: Sweat
Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.Collection: Mean
Like twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation with modernizing forces in his own terms without completely subduing traditionalists. This was not a strategy of Haile Selassie's own choosing. Instead, he was overtaken by events and forced to deal with contradictions that were from the very beginning too formidable to be managed in the long term.Collection: Iran
Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.Collection: Organization
Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?Collection: Democracy
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.Collection: Men
The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.Collection: World
We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen the road to exile in order that our people will not be exterminated and in order to consecrate ourselves wholly and in peace to the preservation of our empire's independence.Collection: War