Haile Selassie
Ethiopian Emperor
Sayings by Haile Selassie
Our responsibility is to the future generations.
The ultimate goal of man is to serve God and humanity.
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.
We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
Rich and poor have always existed and always will. Why? Because there are those that work and those that don't, those wish to earn their living and those that prefer to do nothing. Those that work, that want to work, are not poor.
Sometimes things that do not appear inspired by courage demand great courage.
Ethiopia has been isolated for 3,000 years, and we intend to keep it that way.
The African people are not yet ready for democracy.
A king does not answer to the people; the people answer to the king.
The League of Nations has betrayed Ethiopia.
If Europeans can colonize Africa, why can't Ethiopia?
That is the question which I address to these representatives of the world. I am not asking for the lives of my soldiers, but for the lives of my people.
It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.
Apart from the Kingdom of the Lord there is no other kingdom which has no end.
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.
A house built on sand cannot stand against the winds of change.
The entire world is a single unit, and the world's inhabitants are a single people.
Knowledge is power. If it is not applied, it is useless.
We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.