Mwalimu Julius Quotes

#1. Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#2. Mwalimu Julius Nyerere was a father to his family. To Tanzania he was a defender of a dream.

Enock Maregesi

#3. I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and hands, in postures of shoulders and feet, in nuances of tune and tone, in gaps and absences whose grammar has never been recorded.

J.M. Coetzee

#4. The losing side is full of suspicion.

Publilius Syrus

#5. No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

Wendell Phillips

#6. Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Robert Bolt

#7. Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

Criss Jami

#8. Yes, I'm anal. I am just really organised.

Keeley Hawes

#9. For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly.

Elliott Abrams

#10. Freedom ... is about how you can survive after things are taken from you. It is about the prospect of losing what you love and the effort it takes to continue.

Indira Ganesan

#11. What's important is not who YOU love but WHO loves you.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#12. [The Koran is one of] the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and the Truth which the world has yet known.

William Muir

#13. There's no 'right or wrong' when we describe what is beautiful and what is not.

Fennel Hudson

#14. Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins!

John Donne