Samora Quotes

#1. You look as if you lived on duty and it hadn't;t agreed with you.

Ellen Glasgow

#2. If you like pray like a praying mantis or fast like a faxing machine, if you have no faith, you are just wasting your time and energy.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#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. We mapped out the whole movie, and then worked backwards from that to do these shows. It might not be a movie. It might be something else.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#6. Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.

Hans Christian Andersen

#7. The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

Samora Machel

#8. The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.

Samora Machel

#9. There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

Beryl Bainbridge

#10. You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.

John Engler

#11. Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

Samora Machel

#12. 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

#13. Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.

John Stossel

#14. I think it would be lovely to see some features on a disc of 'The Rocketeer,' with some reminiscing. I think that would be dynamite.

Billy Campbell

#15. 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

#16. Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

Samora Machel

#17. Unity and victory are synonymous.

Samora Machel

#18. There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

Samora Machel

#19. Me being in my grandmother's yard in Brooklyn. I must have been about 3. I had this red balloon. I let go of it, and it went up into the sky and just kept going and going. I completely flipped out, because I didn't understand why.

Lenny Kravitz

#20. It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.

Samora Machel

#21. 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