Kenneth Kaunda Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The British state already invests in early intervention campaigns in drug abuse and sexual health. Challenging extremism should be no less of a priority.

Maajid Nawaz

#3. I never dreamed about one day becoming Secretary of State. It's not that I was modest; it's just that I had never seen a Secretary of State in a skirt.

Madeleine Albright

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

Kenneth Kaunda

#5. You can eat caviar with the sinners, or starve to death with the saints.

Jay Allan

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Never give up on an idea simply because it is bad and doesn't work.

George Carlin

#9. 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

#10. Ambition never comes to an end.

Kenneth Kaunda

#11. Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#12. Hell is truth seen too late.

Thomas Hobbes

#13. Because the truth is, I wouldn't care if she lied to me, except for the fact that I love her. And once you love someone, you can't really put up with them lying to you. It just doesn't work. It makes things into a big mess.

Lauren Barnholdt

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

Kenneth Kaunda

#15. 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

#16. Careful Cam, your vagina is showing.

Em Wolf

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

Kenneth Kaunda

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Kenneth Kaunda

#21. I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.

Carrie Fisher

#22. 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

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

Kenneth Kaunda

#24. The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

Johan Huizinga

#25. The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.

Sara Paretsky

#26. The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

Milton Friedman

#27. If somebody actually came to me and said, 'O.K., this is it: write your last 'South Park' episodes,' I'd be like, 'No, no, no.'

Trey Parker