Kaunda Quotes

#1. Dr. Kaunda, although he was running a one-party state, was very close to the West, and that is why he achieved as much as he did. But we drifted away from the West to look for new friends.

Michael Sata

#2. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

Kenneth Kaunda

#3. The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

Kenneth Kaunda

#4. War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.

Kenneth Kaunda

#5. I process that. I realize that the more I talk to people, the more I see everyone has something going on underneath the surface.

Janet Gurtler

#6. People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.

Kenneth Kaunda

#7. The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways
through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

Kenneth Kaunda

#8. Ambition never comes to an end.

Kenneth Kaunda

#9. Pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder the military hasn't got on to this.

Margaret Atwood

#10. I see my sisters, my mother, my grandmother. I like the way I look. I think I have a nice face. I like my eyes, my mouth. I have a good nose. I have good skin.

Kathy Bates

#11. They could not eat it, and it could not eat them; therefore it was not important.

Arthur C. Clarke

#12. My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.

Kenneth Kaunda

#13. It would have been disastrous for Zambia if we had gone multi-party because these parties would have been used by those opposed to Zambia's participation in the freedom struggle.

Kenneth Kaunda

#14. The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society.

Kenneth Kaunda

#15. I've been saying it all along: please do not demonise Robert Mugabe. I'm not saying the methods he's using are correct, but he was put under great pressure.

Kenneth Kaunda

#16. Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.

Kenneth Kaunda

#17. I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a writer, I return to that again and again because it fascinates me, and it's where I come from, in a sense.

Ann Packer

#18. Companies that make keys, credit card companies, any company in the service business - anything to do with a consumer is probably a software company.

Michael J. Saylor

#19. This great son of the world, Madiba, showed us the way. Whether you are white, black yellow or brown you are all God's children, come together, work together and God will show you the way.

Kenneth Kaunda

#20. My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

William Faulkner

#21. The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.

Tom Ford

#22. I fight AIDS because it's a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields.

Kenneth Kaunda

#23. Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.

Kenneth Kaunda

#24. Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp.

DeForest Kelley

#25. No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin