Julius Quotes - Page 2

• The African is not 'Communistic' in his thinking; he is -- if I may coin an expression - 'communitary'.

  Julius Nyerere

  Thinking, Expression, Coins

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• 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

  Past, Democracy, Needs

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• As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

  Julius Caesar

  Positive Thinking, Men, Worry

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• If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside.

  Julius Nyerere

  Doors, Made, Should

  Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1969). “Stability and Change in Africa”

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• Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

  Julius Caesar

  Funny, Sleep, Night

  Julius Caesar act 1, sc. 2, l. 191 (1599) See Plutarch 2

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• For Brutus is an honourable man;
  So are they all, all honourable men.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Brutus

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [79]

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• I only debate with serious political youth formations. Not a group of the racist Helen Zille's garden boys.

  Julius Malema

  Boys, Garden, Political

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• 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

  Opportunity, Government, Self

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• His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Eulogy

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 5, sc. 5, l. 68

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• Men at some time are masters of their fates.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Men, Cassius

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 134

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  If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

  Julius Caesar

  Military, Bad Ass, Law

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• My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar

  Mark Antony

  Heart, Coffins, Countrymen

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• And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so.

  Julius Caesar

  Hate, War, Blood

  "We're not all citizens of the US yet". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2002.

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• Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

  Julius Caesar

  Military, Believe, Men

  De Bello Gallico bk. 3, sec. 18.

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• You can arrest me, but you can't arrest my ideas.

  Julius Malema

  Ideas

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• Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

  Julius Caesar

  Death, Unexpected, Surprise

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• Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

  Julius Caesar

  War, Matter, Fortune

  "The Civil War". Book by Julius Caesar translated by Jane P. Gardner (Book III, Chapter 68), 47 BC.

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• If real development is to take place, the people have to be involved.

  Julius Nyerere

  Real, People, Development

  Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1974). “Man and Development: Binadamu Na Maendeleó”

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

  Julius Nyerere

  Tanzania, Lost, Hundred

  Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1974). “Man and Development: Binadamu Na Maendeleó”

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• Men willingly believe what they wish.

  Julius Caesar

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

  Julius Caesar “Commentaries on the Gallic Wars”, Gottfried & Fritz

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• Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

  Julius Caesar

  Life, Clever, Believe

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• Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

  Julius Caesar

  Moving On, Death, Wisdom

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• 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

  Civilization, Organization, Benefits

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• O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Men, Beast

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [110]

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• But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Quality, Firmament

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 59

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