Kenneth Kaunda Quotes

9 Sourced Quotes

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

Kenneth Kaunda
The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

Kenneth Kaunda
Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.

Kenneth Kaunda
The moment you have protected an individual you have protected society.

Kenneth Kaunda
People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.

Kenneth Kaunda
Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.

Kenneth Kaunda
War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.

Kenneth Kaunda
The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

Kenneth Kaunda
The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

Kenneth Kaunda