Noteable Quotes

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IF I have to choose between prosperity and calm, I choose calm. – The world’s tallest man 2,47 metre Sultan Kosen, from the town of Mardin in eastern Turkey, according to the Guinness Book of Records WE are tired of waving nice documents like the Constitution and the Human Rights Charter in criminals’ faces. We are going to meet these thugs head-on and if it means we kill when we shoot, then so be it. – SA Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa.YOU may receive calls from very angry people, who would have been provoked by your colleagues from other departments. – President Jacob Zuma to staff at the presidential hotline’s call centre.WHO said the British and the Americans should rule over others? That’s why we say down with you. We have not invited these bloody whites. They want to poke their nose into our own affairs. Refuse that. – Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe lashing out at Western sanctions against him.IF the scourge of HIV and TB [tuberculosis] is a snake, the head is South Africa. If you want to kill a snake, you start with the head and it will die. – SA Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.I HAVE not abandoned my values. I don’t think I’ve abandoned my moral leadership. I am still a communist, I am still committed to the working class. – SA Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande on the furore around his N$1.1 million official BMW.I DON’T she’s a woman. She’s just a child. I think she’s just a child who’s enjoying growing up. – Sports Minister Makhenkesi Stofile on athlete Caster Semenya.EVEN if a test is done, the ANCYL will never accept the categorisation of Caster Semenya as a hermaphrodite, because in South Africa and the entire world of sanity, such does not exist.’ – ANCYL spokesman Floyd Shivambu.OUR Constitution does not recognise gender verification… How could we have stopped her from competing? – Athletics SA spokeswoman Phiwe Mlangeni-Tsholetsane on Semenya, quoted in The Star.HOW is it possible that she didn’t know she’s not 100 percent woman?’ – KayaFM DJ Phat Joe’s on-air comment on Semenya, which led to his suspension.From the history booksI DISAPPROVE of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. – French philosopher and writer, Voltaire (1694 – 1778). On September 18 1851, the first edition of The New York Times was published.THE world is changing, we must adapt ourselves … free our minds from the shackles of outdated notions, practices, and systems, from the erroneous and dogmatic interpretations of (Communism). – China’s military chief, Jiang Zemin. On September 19, 2004, Zemin gave up the top job in China’s military, handing over the post to Communist Party chief Hu Jintao and completing a historic transition to a younger generation of leaders.I AM someone who seeks justice, not revenge, my work is a warning to the murderers of tomorrow, that they will never rest. – Simon Wiesenthal, who waged an untiring campaign to track down Nazi war criminals and keep alive the memory of 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust, died on September 20, 2005