Samora Machel Best Quotes & Sayings

The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight. — Calvin Seerveld

I don't know what's more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing to learn. — Patricia Goldbach

The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction. — Samora Machel

The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built. — Samora Machel

International solidarity is not an act of charity: It is an act of unity between allies fighting on different terrains toward the same objective. The foremost of these objectives is to aid the development of humanity to the highest level possible. — Samora Machel

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective. — Samora Machel

I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil. — Richard Bach

What deep violence does the mind invent / As polar opposite to love. (In 'Hat Love'). — Tony Williams

It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system. — Samora Machel

If I died now," he said, "you would hardly remember me when you are my age."
He said it for no apparent reason, and the angel of death hovered for a moment in the cool shadows of the office and flew out again through the window, leaving a trail of feathers fluttering in his wake, but the boy did not see them. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay. — Samora Machel

Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat. — Samora Machel

The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people. — Samora Machel

Though denigrated by some outside academia and research, she embraced knowledge for its own sake and what better way to honor that than reveling in the intricacies of the brain? If there were any answers to the human condition, if an immortal soul made its home anywhere, it was in its spongy gray folds. — Thomm Quackenbush

Unity and victory are synonymous. — Samora Machel

The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime. — Samora Machel

It would be a great advantage to a young man if his early training could eradicate the idea that the world has a great deal to offer him. But the usual result of education is to strenghten this delusion; and our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than from fact. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain. — Samora Machel

When it's all been said and done...
There's hell of a lot more said, than done. — Alan VanMeter

I'm not perfect and I don't have to be. — Demi Lovato

To waste time is to lose life — Sunday Adelaja

There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites. — Samora Machel

Just the thought of getting up made me glad I was lying on the floor. — David Foster Wallace