Top 75 Selassie's Quotes
#2. There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings ...
Haile Selassie
#4. Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others
Haile Selassie
#5. Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier? All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions
Haile Selassie
#6. The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.
Haile Selassie
#8. The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity ... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace
Haile Selassie
#9. Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
Haile Selassie
#10. Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.
Haile Selassie
#11. It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
Haile Selassie
#12. Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
Haile Selassie
#13. No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.
Haile Selassie
#14. If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty God that he would bless the results for us
Haile Selassie
#15. The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.
Ziggy Marley
#16. This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
Haile Selassie
#17. Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
Haile Selassie
#18. One cannot deny that in former times man's life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man's life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.
Haile Selassie
#19. A man who says "I have learned enough and will learn no further" should be considered as knowing nothing at all.
Haile Selassie
#20. I have heard of that idea. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal and that they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that a human being is emanated from a deity.
Haile Selassie
#21. It is both the duty and responsibility of the world's fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many
Haile Selassie
#22. We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully ...
Haile Selassie
#23. Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?
Haile Selassie
#24. Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
Haile Selassie
#25. A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility
Haile Selassie
#26. The same arts that did gain
A power, must it maintain.
Andrew Marvell
#27. Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.
Haile Selassie
#28. We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
Haile Selassie
#29. History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
Haile Selassie
#30. An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
Haile Selassie
#31. We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.
Haile Selassie
#32. Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality.
Haile Selassie
#33. Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
Haile Selassie
#34. You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow ...
Haile Selassie
#35. We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?
Haile Selassie
#36. A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated
Haile Selassie
#37. Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.
Haile Selassie
#38. A good leader ... maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.
Haile Selassie
#39. As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life
Haile Selassie
#40. Everyone, in all walks of life, regardless of his professional occupation should feel concerned and play an active role to solve such problems which affect mankind ...
Haile Selassie
#41. A well organized education should not be one which prepares students for a good remuneration alone. It should be one that can help and guide them towards acquiring clear thinking, a fruitful mind, and an elevated spirit.
Haile Selassie
#42. There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of our people merits as much attention as its spiritual welfare
Haile Selassie
#43. Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
Haile Selassie
#44. We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
Haile Selassie
#45. Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
Haile Selassie
#46. Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless
Haile Selassie
#47. We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen the road to exile in order that our people will not be exterminated and in order to consecrate ourselves wholly and in peace to the preservation of our empire's independence.
Haile Selassie
#48. Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
Haile Selassie
#49. We have before us the examples of the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. We must remember how long these required to achieve their union. When a solid foundation is laid, if the mason is able and his materials good, a strong house can be built.
Haile Selassie
#50. The fruits of one's sweat and mental labour are always rewarding
Haile Selassie
#51. Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
Haile Selassie
#52. The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces.
Haile Selassie
#53. If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructores but form the very life experience itself.
Haile Selassie
#54. Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward by spiritual power, man can reach the summit destined for him by the Great Creator.
Haile Selassie
#55. Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.
Haile Selassie
#56. Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess
Haile Selassie
#57. Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.
Haile Selassie
#58. I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.
Haile Selassie
#59. Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?
Haile Selassie
#60. Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily
Haile Selassie
#61. The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations
Haile Selassie
#62. Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
Haile Selassie
#63. We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
Haile Selassie
#64. Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.
Haile Selassie
#65. There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.
Haile Selassie
#66. In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.
Haile Selassie
#67. There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions - they lead to defeat
Haile Selassie
#68. I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
Jack Kingston
#69. Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life
Haile Selassie
#70. He [the Almighty] taught us that all human beings are equal regardless of sex, national origin and tribe. And He also taught us all who seek Him shall find Him.
Haile Selassie
#71. 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
#72. The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
Haile Selassie
#73. Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.
Haile Selassie
#74. Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie
#75. It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy ...
Haile Selassie
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