Zille's Quotes

#1. I only debate with serious political youth formations. Not a group of the racist Helen Zille's garden boys.

Julius Malema

#2. Words are music, really.

Tom Waits

#3. The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.

E.F. Schumacher

#4. We will see at the end of the day. I don't like to speculate. Our goal in this election is to do better than in the last one.

Helen Zille

#5. In essence, the education department argues that the quality of the education children receive is irrelevant, as long as someone stands in front of the class.

Helen Zille

#6. At midnight, I'm standing outside the door to his cell. Hospital room.

Suzanne Collins

#7. Enemies can also be friends.

Wendy Zhang

#8. Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

Malcolm Turnbull

#9. Caring for others is not a warm, fuzzy feeling. A caring state requires exceptional professionalism, strong systems and accountability. This

Helen Zille

#10. It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.

Chris Evans

#11. Love's night is noon.

William Shakespeare

#12. Where there is division, there is sin.

Origen

#13. The best tribute we can pay Madiba is to ensure that our political debate focuses on issues of how best we can ensure that each South African child, whatever the circumstances of their birth, inherits freedom they can use.

Helen Zille

#14. I've loved comics since I was very young, and I've always liked telling stories.

Cullen Bunn

#15. For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement.

Helen Zille

#16. The DA is the only party in South Africa that has grown in every national election and that trend must continue, and it must accelerate, because South Africa is in a race against time to save our democracy.

Helen Zille

#17. Cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#18. I lift my hands to believe again. You are my refuge. You are my strength. As I pour out my heart, these things I remember, You are faithful, God, forever.

Chris Tomlin

#19. I want to be a part of you," I whispered.
"You are a part of me," she whispered back. "You always have been.

Elizabeth Finn

#20. How marvelous it is to do nothing and then relax from doing nothing.

Heinrich Zille

#21. The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.

William Sloane Coffin

#22. We don't lie to protect the other person. We lie to protect ourselves from the consequences. We lie because we don't want to deal with our own feelings. We lie because we don't want things to change. Not by our hand. So a wall starts to build.

Elisa Marie Hopkins

#23. Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that if we invent a new acronym, or write a new empowerment charter, we can avoid some of the back-breaking work that sustained progress requires

Helen Zille