Idi Amin

You cannot run faster than a bullet.

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.

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.

I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world.

Germany is the place where when Hitler was the prime minister and supreme commander, he burned over six million Jews. This is because Hitler and all German people knew that Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany.

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

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Haven’t you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Some critics will write ‘Maya Angelou is a natural writer’ – which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.