"Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power."

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Source : "Red Tears: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia". Book by Dawit Wolde Giorgis, 1989.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

#Done Quotes #Emperor Quotes #Thirst Quotes

“Health can never be divorced from strength.”
“She had heard Papa sing so many songs about the heart; the heart that was breaking - was aching - was dancing -was heavy laden - that leaped for joy - that was heavy in sorrow - that turned over - that stood still. She really believed the heart actually did those things.”
“All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.”
“God wants us to respond in wholehearted love because it is who He is and who He created us to be.”
“Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice.”
“For a moment she turned in a circle, staring at her hands, which she held high and useless, close to her breast. She bobbed and shambled like an ape doing a trick, and her face was the silly, bewildered face of a joker's victim. And yet she could make no move that was not beautiful. Her trapped terror was more lovely than any joy that Molly had ever seen, and that was the most terrible thing about it.”
“There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.”
“Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer?”

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