Philosophical Sayings

Leadership is not about making everyone happy; it's about making the tough decisions.

I am the black Hitler of Africa. I am going to be the most powerful man in the world.

I never had any formal education—not even a nursery school certificate. But sometimes I know more than Ph. D. s because as a military man I know how to act. I am a man of action.

Uganda is an African country in the ancestral homeland of African people and must operate first and foremost for the development of African people.

Our deliberate policy is to transfer the economic control of Uganda into the hands of Ugandans, for the first time in our country's history.

We are determined to make the ordinary Ugandan master of his own destiny and, above all, self-reliant.

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to whi…

When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned? I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me: I tried to dispel the…

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allo…

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I again shall be virtuous.

Nothing is more painful to the human mind than after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

A truce to philosophy! —Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.