Idi Amin

I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me.

I’m a good Muslim and I’m only interested in Islam.

I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

All I want to do is change the world.

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person’s stature is as large as one’s own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

As Love ought to bring them together, so it is the best Way to keep them well together.

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men’s heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.