Idi Amin

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

His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.

You cannot run faster than a bullet.

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.

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

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

Poor people are basically superfluous for wealth production, and therefore the wealthy want to get rid of them. The rich also frighten everyone else, because if you’re afraid of these people, then you submit to state authority.

The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.

But Klaus Barbie was basically small potatoes. Operation Paper Clip was a big operation, involving many top Nazis. We managed to get Walter Rauff, the guy who created the gas chambers, off to Chile. Others went to fascist Spain.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

So for example, worker- and community- controlled enterprises are germs of a future society within the present one. And those not only can be developed, but are being developed.

Power that isn’t really justified by the will of the governed should be dismantled.

Even if we do not always agree on every aspect, nobody should take this as an excuse to declare us as enemies.

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences…Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It’s a neutral instrument.

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin.

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.