Robert Mugabe Quotations

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

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.

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

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

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

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.

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

I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.

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

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

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

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.

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

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

There are things one must do for oneself.

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.

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.

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

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

Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.

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

We are a democratic country and my party enjoys overwhelming support. The two gentlemen who purported to have withdrawn actually found it very tough to compete with us. We will win this election,

Let those long distance philanthropists who want to romanticize shacks ... tell us why they don't allow them in their own land,

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

Having restored land to the people... We have learnt a host of lessons, all pointing to the challenge of ensuring food security for the people.

We have sought to address this inequity, ... And what has been the response from former imperialist quarters? Staggering beyond description. My government, my party and my own person have been labeled land grabbers, demonized, reviled and threatened with sanctions in the face of accusations of reverse racism.

The prophets of doom are prophets of doom. Their prophecies are doomed,

How come Kony gets a viral video made about him and i don't

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

This, indeed, is where it (Habitat) rightly belongs and not anywhere in Zimbabwe.

The voice of Mr. Bush and the voice of Mr. Blair can't decide who shall rule in Zimbabwe, who shall rule in Africa, who shall rule in Asia, who shall rule in Venezuela, who shall rule in Iran, who shall rule in Iraq,

IMF is almost never a real assistance to developing countries,

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

South Africa needs a second liberation.

We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, ... Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers tell that to their constituency or constituencies overseas.

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.

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

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

The voice of Mr Bush and the voice of Mr Blair can't decide who shall rule in Zimbabwe, who shall rule in Africa, who shall rule in Asia, who shall rule in Venezuela, who shall rule in Iran, who shall rule in Iraq,

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.

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.

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

Only God who appointed me will remove me.

We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood.... So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

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.

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

The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like an 'Animal Farm' where some members are more equal than others. How can Blair claim to regulate and direct events and still say all of us are equals?

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

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.

Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists.

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

I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective: justice for his people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people and their rights over their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be Hitler tenfold. Ten times, that is what we stand for.

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

If President Barack Obama wants me to allow marriage for same-sex couples in my country (Zimbabwe), he must come here so that I marry him first.

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