Siad Barre famous quotes

I did not come to power to divide Somali but to unite them, and I will never deviate from this path. I shall respect a Somali individual as long as he deserves respect, but if he turns away from the correct path, then that is not my business.
-- Siad Barre

#Long #Path #Individual

When I leave Somalia I will leave buildings but not people.
-- Siad Barre

#People #Building #Somalia

When I came to Mogadishu...here was one road built by the Italians. If you try to force me to stand down, I will leave the city as I found it. I came to power with a gun; only the gun can make me go.
-- Siad Barre

#Gun #Cities #Trying

We should teach the foreigners and colonialists that Somalia cannot be led by other people and that the traitors who fled the country will never lead Somalia.
-- Siad Barre

#Country #People #Traitor

It is the worst way that big power could act, it is arrogance, it is proudness, it is measuring of one's decision in accordance to his bigness, unfortunately, therefore lack of any wisdom.
-- Siad Barre

#Decision #Arrogance #Way

Some of the colonizers do understand and quickly retreat, while some, because they are stupid, continue colonizing others, increasing the suffering, deaths, injuries, defeat and humiliation. The people colonized by Abyssinia will be free. Eritrea will be free, and they cannot refuse to let them be free. Western Somalia will be free, and they cannot refuse to grant it freedom. The numerous Abo will be free because this is history, and no one can prevent the sunshine from reaching us.
-- Siad Barre

#Stupid #Sunshine #People

In our Revolution we believe that we have broken the chain of a consumer economy based on imports, and we are free to decide our destiny . And in order to realize the interests of the Somali people, their achievement of a better life, the full development of their potentialities and the fulfilment of their aspirations, we solemnly declare Somalia to be a Socialist State.
-- Siad Barre

#Believe #Destiny #Order

Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

Actually, all paths lead away from the truth...how's that? All paths. There's no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth's already here, where are you going?

The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.

Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.