Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that’s been going on since the Second World War.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

NATO’s brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting into tears. It wasn’t what I had imagined at all.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

Money has a language of its own.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

Money ain’t everything.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.