Quotes from Robert Mugabe

There are things one must do for oneself.

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.

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

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

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 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.

If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.

I am glad that Zimbabwe and China speak the same language on many issues. We share the same conviction that only a fair, just, and non-prescriptive world order, based on the principles of the charter of the United Nations, can deliver the development we all need.

Zimbabwe has lots of safaris, but very few are African. Most are white-owned. In our region, we have the most safaris and animals. Our people cannot keep suffering.

Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans; so are its resources.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.