Top 32 Machel Quotes
#1. International solidarity is not an act of charity: It is an act of unity between allies fighting on different terrains toward the same objective. The foremost of these objectives is to aid the development of humanity to the highest level possible.
Samora Machel
#2. The historical order is very interesting, but accidental and capricious; if we would to understand the growth of knowledge, we cannot be satisfied with accidents, we must explain how knowledge was gradually built up.
George Sarton
#3. The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
Samora Machel
#4. Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.
Samora Machel
#5. I don't share the view that China and the U.S. need to reach some kind of strategic accommodation to carve up the Asia-Pacific region - that is an arrogant proposition and deeply insulting to other countries in the region, including Japan and potentially also India and Indonesia.
John Howard
#6. Dawn. Damn. The universe becomes invisible for another day.
Kurt Anderson
#7. The impact of armed conflict on children is everyone's responsibility. And it must be everyone's concern.
Graca Machel
#8. The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
Samora Machel
#9. I like the Whisky old an the women young
Errol Flynn
#10. The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.
Samora Machel
#11. The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.
Robert E. Sherwood
#12. Say 'pop.'"
"Pop?"
"That was the sound of me pulling your head out of your ass.
Ilona Andrews
#13. Soul, love, joy and natural beauty shines first from within. Make time for quiet reflective moments. Be still and know there is more than just Botox and pink martinis for women over 40.
Machel Shull
#14. Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.
Samora Machel
#16. Let each one of us pray day and night for the downtrodden millions who are held fast by poverty, priestcraft, and tyranny. Pray day and night for them. I care more to preach religion to them than to the high and the rich.
Swami Vivekananda
#17. It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.
John Milton
#18. Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.
Samora Machel
#20. If a country has a fascist leader, this is a great horror for that country; but there is much greater horror: The existence of ignorant and unethical masses who support that primitive leader!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities.
Graca Machel
#22. One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
Ban Ki-moon
#23. There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
Samora Machel
#24. Technology brings mankind closer to divinity or extinction.
Toba Beta
#25. Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mind-set of youth today.
Graca Machel
#26. In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic.
Graca Machel
#27. In the early '70s [the late] Ras Shorty and I took Indian dholak drumming [from chutney music, another Indo-Trinidadian creation], fused it with calypso's African rhythms, and soca was born against the wishes of the purists.
Machel Montano
#28. I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#29. There are no boundries between good and evil where love is concerned.
James O'Barr
#30. It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
Samora Machel
#31. Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
Samora Machel
#32. The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
Samora Machel
