Aminu Kano Quotes

Nigeria, Politician
1920 – April, 17, 1983.

Aminu Kano was a Muslim politician from Nigeria. In the 1940s he led a socialist movement in the northern part of the country in opposition to British rule. The Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, and the Aminu Kano College of Islamic Studies all in Kano, are named after him.

The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!

Aminu Kano
- Freedom
- Road
- Follows
The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.

Aminu Kano
- Work
- System
- Pure

A bowl rotates faster at the top than at the bottom.

Aminu Kano
- Bottom
- Top
- Bowl
One must scratch that part of the body or mind that itches.

Aminu Kano
- Mind
- Scratch
- Itches
As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today.

Aminu Kano
- Happy
- Today
- Moment
I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired.

Aminu Kano
He who allows himself to be arrested for a crime he did not commit will be expelled from the party, but if he resists and comes to us on a stretcher, he is a hero.

Aminu Kano
- Party
- Hero
- Crime
Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.

Aminu Kano
- Leader
- Serve
- Servant

One can't realize difficulty arriving at a momentous decision until one comes to do so.

Aminu Kano