Kenneth Kaunda famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
-- Kenneth Kaunda

#Violence #States
People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.
-- Kenneth Kaunda

#Hero #Zimbabwe #People
I fight AIDS because it's a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields.
-- Kenneth Kaunda

#Fighting #Race #Disease
The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society.
-- Kenneth Kaunda

#Law #Moments #Individual
Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.
-- Kenneth Kaunda

#Power #Clouds #Play
Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.
-- Kenneth Kaunda

#People #Mind #Problem
The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.
-- Kenneth Kaunda

#War #Drama #Two
My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.
-- Kenneth Kaunda

#Children #Boys #Brilliant
War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.
-- Kenneth Kaunda

#War #Cost #Littles
Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.
-- Kenneth Kaunda

#Sports #War #Class
The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.
-- Kenneth Kaunda

#Change #Voice #Growth

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