Idi Amin

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

The problem with me is that I am fifty or one hundred years ahead of my time. My speed is very fast. Some ministers have had to drop out of my government because they could not keep up.

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the Sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

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

My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

I’m essentially agnostic. I don’t have a problem with God. I have a problem with religion. I’ve chosen to live my life without the certainties of religious faith. I think they’re dangerous. Music is something that gives my life value and spiritual solace.

If you are a Christian, you are in danger. If you decided to abandon your faith and become an atheist, you also are to be liquidated according to their concept. You are in danger if you decide to become a Muslim. It is not going to save you anyway because they believe traditional Islam is hostile to their goals.

The Bible does not need advertising by me, but I wish more people could be persuaded to read it. Perhaps if they had been, we should not have this war on our hands. For greed and idleness brought it on.

Perhaps the most spiritual thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with the eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.

What you possess, you lose.

Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find.

Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness.

Inner surrender leads to the highest truth.

There are three books my daughter felt were the most important influences in her life: the Bible, her mother’s cookbook, and her father’s checkbook.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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