Ali Mazrui Quotes

You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept… You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.

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• Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Now
  • Africa
  • South Africa

• Africa has no future.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Future
  • Africa

• Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Said
  • Drug
  • Because

• We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • School
  • Africa
  • Canada

• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• The infrastructure we provide is the same in a remote town in Africa or New York or an archipelago in Sweden: we use the same system, and the chips inside the phone are the same.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • New
  • New York
  • Africa

• When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Culture
  • You
  • Concept

• There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Poverty
  • Scary
  • India

• The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Summer
  • First
  • Africa

• I love the concept of community energy.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Energy
  • Community
  • Concept

• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Human
  • Distance
  • Wonderful

• The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Devil
  • Level
  • Concept

• When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • People
  • Africa
  • South Africa

• I love Africa.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Africa

• In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • May
  • White
  • Africa

• I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Find
  • Unknown
  • Concept

• As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Fantasy
  • Africa
  • Adolescent

• Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Same

• There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Universe
  • Things
  • Human

• Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for he identifies it as air; and it differs in its substantial nature by rarity and density. Being made finer it becomes fire; being made thicker it becomes wind, then cloud, then (when thickened still more) water, then earth, then stones; and the rest come into being from these.

  

  Theophrastus
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Air

• Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Life
  • Great
  • Truth

• When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept… You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.

  

  Ali Mazrui
  • Infinite
  • Africa
  • Concept