Special thread: Interesting (best) Quotes | Misemo yenye hekima ndani yake, Nukuu

[Mwifwa]

Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.

Julius Nyerere

 

[Midekoo]

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”

 

[Mwifwa]

Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one of the big problems of Africa in the modern world. Our problem is just this: how to get the benefits of European society - benefits that have been brought about by an organization based upon the individual - and yet retain African's own structure of society in which the individual is a member of a kind of fellowship.

Julius Nyerere

 

[Mafikizolo]

Kuchanika Kwa jamvi sio mwisho wa maongezi

 

[Midekoo]

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”

 

[Mwifwa]

In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.

Julius Nyerere

 

[Mwifwa]

In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would
make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil
rights.

Julius Nyerere

 

[Mafikizolo]

Nazi haishindani na jiwe

 

[Mwifwa]

A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor.

Julius Nyerere

 

[Midekoo]

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”

 

[Mwifwa]

The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live

Julius Nyerere

 

[Midekoo]

“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”

 

[Mwifwa]

African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.

Julius Nyerere

 

[Mafikizolo]

Mtu mzima hakosei

 

[Mwifwa]

We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us.

Julius Nyerere

 

[Midekoo]

“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”

 

[Mwifwa]

We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

Julius Nyerere

 

[Mwifwa]

Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.

Julius Nyerere

 

[Mwifwa]

Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.

Julius Nyerere

 

[Mwifwa]

Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.

Julius Nyerere