Top 30 Duvalier Quotes
#1. But how is this to be accomplished? "Cut away everything." The experience of "ecstasy" (standing outside one's own body) happened frequently to Plotinus: Many
Bertrand Russell
#3. When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.
Jean-Claude Duvalier
#4. In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.
Jean-Claude Duvalier
#5. When you encounter unpleasantness from the human population, try to keep in mind that you will be able to dance on their graves long after they're dead. It's a cheering thought. - from The Guide for the Newly Undead.
Molly Harper
#7. I accept the people's will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people.
Francois Duvalier
#8. And then there was her face: her white skin, her brown eyes, and her expression, so soft and beautiful; she looked as though she were constantly getting ready to ask a question. Even an immaculately crafted doll could not have been as lovely.
Natsuo Kirino
#9. I've wept for Haiti a thousand times over the years since my first trip during the Duvalier reign.
Carol Guzy
#10. There has not been one day since I left that I have not thought about Haiti.
Jean-Claude Duvalier
#11. People of Haiti, I am the heir to the political philosophy, the doctrine and the revolution which my late father incarnated as president-for-life [and] I have decided to continue his work with the same fierce energy and the same intransigence.
Jean-Claude Duvalier
#12. All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.
Jean-Claude Duvalier
#13. I don't care that you can't quote my favorite movie, and you don't care that I don't know what book Will and Layken are from.
Jay McLean
#14. God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.
Francois Duvalier
#15. Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.
Francois Duvalier
#16. Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be holy. We do not have to be qualified to be whole, or healed.Made
Madeleine L'Engle
#18. I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government.
Jean-Claude Duvalier
#19. At Al Jazeera, the first story I did was to sit down with a former Haitian dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, and grill him about crimes against humanity. Al Jazeera is giving me the opportunity to tell important stories and stories that I want to tell.
Soledad O'Brien
#21. I am currently in Haiti to help the Haitian people in their reconstruction.
Jean-Claude Duvalier
#22. You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.
Paul Keating
#23. We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God.
Julia Cameron
#24. We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
Jonathan Swift
#25. Communism has established centres of infection ... No area in the world is as vital to American security as the Caribbean ... We need a massive injection of money to reset the country on its feet, and this injection can come only from our great, capable friend and neighbor the United States.
Francois Duvalier
#27. With the breakdown of discipline in the home and with every source of amusement and instruction pouring poison into daily life, it is not to be wondered that the minds of people are ready to receive anything but the truth and that they are ready to believe lies and ultimately the lie.
Billy Graham
#28. Dear is my friend
yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good:
My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should.
Friedrich Schiller
#29. I don't think I was really going anywhere in life. I don't think, I was achieving too much, even though I had a stable job and all.
Andrew Chan
#30. I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?
Jean-Claude Duvalier
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