Top 25 Quotes by Haile Selassie of 83 - Page 4

Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.

Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.

Haile Selassie

Real, Issues, Peaceful

Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.

Haile Selassie

Mean, Men, Opportunity

Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

Like twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation with modernizing forces in his own terms without completely subduing traditionalists. This was not a strategy of Haile Selassie's own choosing. Instead, he was overtaken by events and forced to deal with contradictions that were from the very beginning too formidable to be managed in the long term.

Haile Selassie

Iran, Long, Events

"Revolutionary Ethiopia : From Empire to People's Republi" by Edmond J. Keller, Indiana University Press, (p. 67), 1991.

Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.

Haile Selassie

Organization, World, Today

Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.

Haile Selassie

Men, Aspiration, United Nations

Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?

Haile Selassie

Democracy, Republic

Interview with Oriana Fallaci in "The Chicago Tribune", June 24, 1973.

The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.

Haile Selassie

World, May, Opinion

Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen the road to exile in order that our people will not be exterminated and in order to consecrate ourselves wholly and in peace to the preservation of our empire's independence.

Haile Selassie

War, Order, People

"Days of Emperor and Clown : The Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936" by James Dugan and Laurence Davis Lafore, (p. 204), 1973.