Robert Mugabe Quotes

Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on rather than send it to your mum and you realise witchcraft is real

South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner

Dont fight even over girlfriends. The country is full of beautiful women. If you cant get one, come to Mugabe for assistance.

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.

If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads.

Don't drink at all, don't smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.

Only God who appointed me will remove me.

What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.

We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall never collapse, never ever.

We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe?.. What is lacking now are goods on the shelves - that is all.

It's not possible that women can be at par with men.

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power.

I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

We will have no mercy for white people regarding the land, they cannot own our soil.

Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept will seek to remove.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

South Africa needs a second liberation.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

We expected anyway that the democratic forces which have agreed with us in Zimbabwe would have rallied behind us. But it was a difficult struggle.

There are things one must do for oneself.

So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of the United Nations?

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done.

The armed struggle is not ending just now. We are upholding a ceasefire. We have our arms with us.

There are many refugees, if not more refugees inside the country than outside the country. There is also the question of working to aid us at the present moment when we are campaigning for elections.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

We will defend our victory through armed struggle. We will have to do that.

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.

Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.

We are living in a generation where people ‘in love’ are free to touch each other’s private parts but are not allowed to touch each other’s phones because they are private.