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.

December 2, 2025

8 months ago

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

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,

March 16, 2025

1 year ago

Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.

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