Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.

No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

Like twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation with modernizing forces in his own terms without completely subduing traditionalists. This was not a strategy of Haile Selassie's own choosing. Instead, he was overtaken by events and forced to deal with contradictions that were from the very beginning too formidable to be managed in the long term.

There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of our people merits as much attention as its spiritual welfare

The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.

It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.