Matshona DhliwayoIt is better to win souls than to conquer nations.
About This Quote
The world is full of people who value power and wealth. They think that wealth and power can be measured in terms of material possessions and that they are worth more than the people they rule over. If we did not talk of conquering nations then we would never be able to do anything but conquer each other.
Some Similar Quotes
- Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.
- Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
- You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.
- That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.
- That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.
More Quotes By Matshona Dhliwayo
- And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of...
- Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
- Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
- What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
- Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.