The African is not 'Communistic' in his thinking; he is -- if I may coin an expression - 'communitary'.
We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us.
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside.
Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.
For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.
I only debate with serious political youth formations. Not a group of the racist Helen Zille's garden boys.
We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar
And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so.
Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
You can arrest me, but you can't arrest my ideas.
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
If real development is to take place, the people have to be involved.
In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.
Men willingly believe what they wish.
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one of the big problems of Africa in the modern world. Our problem is just this: how to get the benefits of European society - benefits that have been brought about by an organization based upon the individual - and yet retain African's own structure of society in which the individual is a member of a kind of fellowship.
O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !
But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.
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