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.

November 27, 2025

8 months ago

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

February 25, 2025

1 year ago

I am a revolutionist by birth, reading and principle. I am always on the side of the revolutionists because there

September 11, 2025

11 months ago

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on buses and in the subway.

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