Top 25 Mengistu Quotes

#1. The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

Sally Ride

Mengistu Quotes #103914
#2. Every virtuous man is free.

Philo

Mengistu Quotes #520185
#3. Mengistu seemed to symbolize the revolution. He was the baria, the slave who overthrew the master, the member of the conquered tribe who got even with the conquerors, the poorly educated son of a servant who rose against the intellectual elite.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Mengistu Quotes #558351
#4. We thought that the proletariat would eventually run the world. But it is the Americans who have assumed that position ... The American people have changed.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Mengistu Quotes #558542
#5. Mengistu is a barbaric and cruel creature who becomes happy with the death of human beings.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Mengistu Quotes #653712
#6. Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Mengistu Quotes #677512
#7. I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Mengistu Quotes #684833
#8. Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

Billy Gibbons

Mengistu Quotes #742318
#9. When was in prison I admired him for his moral strength ...
Of his period in power I can see few results. Apartheid no longer exists, at least to all appearances, but no one understands what the new government in South Africa is doing.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Mengistu Quotes #753770
#10. After Mengistu consolidated his power in 1978, his personality gradually began to change. His ability to listen and his patience faded away. We could now see these qualities were pretences only; he had been putting on his best behavior in his bid for support.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Mengistu Quotes #774817
#11. Tak is here now, and he speaks with the voice of the older age; with the voice of the unformed.

Stephen King

Mengistu Quotes #817072
#12. Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Mengistu Quotes #904427
#13. Mengistu does not understand the meaning of self-determination, either historically or in the abstract. He cannot conceive of a nation as anything but an absolute centralized authority, totalitarianism, for his rule is nothing less than that now.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Mengistu Quotes #923279
#14. In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave] ... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn!

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Mengistu Quotes #1085524
#15. Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and I'm not going to add Meles to the list.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Mengistu Quotes #1116157
#16. It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted.

Stephen Covey

Mengistu Quotes #1141741
#17. Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

Oscar Wilde

Mengistu Quotes #1204201
#18. I'm a military man, I did what I did only because my country had to be saved from tribalism and feudalism. If I failed, it was only because I was betrayed. The so-called genocide was nothing more than just a war in defence of the revolution and a system from which all have benefited.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Mengistu Quotes #1258391
#19. One of the fundamental preconditions of successful socialist construction is to ensure the people's readiness to defend themselves from the ravages of probable regional or global wars on the basis of the balance of forces generating from the basic contradictions of our epoch.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Mengistu Quotes #1303190
#20. I'm not a nightclub person, but you need to have a social life sometimes.

Natalie Imbruglia

Mengistu Quotes #1331590
#21. we are "loved by God the Father.

John Stange

Mengistu Quotes #1539971
#22. I haven't turned into an absolute geek who doesn't like doing fun things.

Kevin Pietersen

Mengistu Quotes #1634349
#23. From now on you must pray for your people and yourself three times a day.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Mengistu Quotes #1642679
#24. I don't feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don't have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you've got the money to be able to afford it, then it's really good to buy something from me, but don't buy too much.

Vivienne Westwood

Mengistu Quotes #1826999
#25. I am a revolutionary; my life is dedicated to freeing the people.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Mengistu Quotes #1851913

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