Samora Machel Quotations

The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Unity and victory are synonymous.

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

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.

International solidarity is not an act of charity: It is an act of unity between allies fighting on different terrains toward the same objective. The foremost of these objectives is to aid the development of humanity to the highest level possible.