Quotes Library

September 19, 2025

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

Robert Mugabe (1924–2019), African politician, prime minister of Zimbabwe, in Sunday Times, 26 February 1984, Jay p.267

Do you know why God gave cricket to the English? To teach them the meaning of eternity—the time that it takes for a typical cricket match.

Mr. Mugabe got over that plan pretty quickly.

January 10, 2025

2 years ago

Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail…In the long run of history,

August 27, 2025

1 year ago

If…a rulership aims not at the common good of the multitude, but at the private good of the ruler, it will be an unjust and perverted rulership.

March 20, 2025

2 years ago

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

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