Samora Machel Quotations

There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

Unity and victory are synonymous.

The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.

It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.

The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.

Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.