Haile Selassie

Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality.

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.

The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?

Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

The more I learn about people, the better I like my dog.

I’d like to devote about three years to the elimination of the cow. There’s not reason in the world why the chemist can’t discover the cow’s secret of converting vegetation into dairy products. And there’s less reason why the chemist can’t do a better job of it after he learns how.

Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a noble animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward-you will never get her full confidence again.

The more I know about people, the more I like dogs. I simply like animals.

One dog barks at something. And a hundred dogs bark at the sound.

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.

Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.