Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.
Haile SelassieThere is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.
Haile SelassieAny who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless
Haile SelassieIt is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher and more lasting values will show more marked progress while the evil in him recedes into the background. Knowing that material and spiritual progress are essential to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both. Only then shall we be able to acquire that absolute inner calm so necessary to our well-being.
Haile Selassie