Mobutu Sese Quotes

#1. But most people will draw their own conclusions on learning that the dictator's official name, Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga, translates as 'the cock who goes from hen to hen knowing no fatigue'.

Jonathan Margolis

#2. Why do we wait until tomorrow to do good? Why do we wait to be rich before giving? Is not the gift of ourselves better than money, and is there a day or even an hour in which we could not give a tear or a smile to someone who is suffering?

Elisabeth Leseur

#3. If you want to steal, steal a little in a nice way. But if you steal too much to become rich overnight, you'll be caught.

Mobutu Sese Seko

#4. To identify with a psycopath
, is the proof you are not

E.webb

#5. Sarita's been so busy exercising her brain that she hasn't had time for her heart, the poor thing.

Manil Suri

#6. I have rendered my country and people an enormous service. They owe me everything.

Mobutu Sese Seko

#7. Because the passage of time becomes molasses when dealing with the death of a loved one. A month. A year. Two years. All the same.

Anne Frasier

#8. If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.

Mobutu Sese Seko

#9. The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.

Alan W. Watts

#10. I no longer have a borrowed soul. I no longer have borrowed thoughts or ideas. I no longer speak in a borrowed language.

Mobutu Sese Seko

#11. I have pointed rhythmically at the ceiling to the two-four beat of the same disco music I hated pointing at the ceiling to in 1977.

David Foster Wallace

#12. People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#13. The fact differentiates the fake.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business!

Charles Dickens

#15. I play baseball and I like to read. What makes that odd?

Scott Rolen

#16. I never thought about being a cop. I'm kind of sensitive. I don't know if I could handle that job. It's hard to go home every day and be able to still live your own life because some of the stuff you see really affects you.

Missy Peregrym

#17. The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad.

Mobutu Sese Seko

#18. Every blessing is a challenge to work.

Sunday Adelaja

#19. Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

Potter Stewart

#20. Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#21. Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me that today no argument can stand that supports unequal opportunity or any intrinsic disqualification for sharing in the whole of life.

Margaret Mead