"In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave]... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn!"

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Source : "Mengistu Haile Mariam: The Profile of a Dictator". Ethiopian Review, February 1994.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

#Country Quotes #Dark Quotes #Hair Quotes

“We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.”

Source : Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.132, I.B.Tauris
“Before the 1940s the terms "system" and "systems thinking" had been used by several scientists, but it was Bertalanffy's concepts of an open system and a general systems theory that established systems thinking as a major scientific movement”
“Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies”
“Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure.”
“Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.”
“Extreme complication is contrary to art.”
“Both companies have product ranges with world-class brands that complement each other perfectly. Our companies share a common culture and mission. By realizing synergies and with our combined financial and strategic strengths, we will be ideally positioned in tomorrow's marketplace.”
“One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they are not â€œfor goodâ€; one thinks everything is a rehearsal - to be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.”

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