This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Without ideality, there is no grandeur; without grandeur there is no beauty. Olympus is a mountain. The most swagger monument will always be the Pyramids. Exuberance is better than taste; the desert is better than a street-pavement, and a savage is better than a hairdresser!
Twenty-seven years ago, as Emperor of Ethiopia, I mounted the rostrum in Geneva, Switzerland, to address the League of Nations and to appeal for relief from the destruction which had been unleashed against my defenseless nation, by the Fascist invader.
It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.
Love |
The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons
Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.
One who wants to keep their yard tidy does not reserve a plot for the weeds.
Change | Civilization | Future | Global | Health | Inconvenient | Land | Security | Will |
Of what does not concern you say nothing, good or bad.
Consideration | Man | Nothing |
Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.
Affliction | Gloom | Light |
Sometimes it is better to give your apple away, than to eat it yourself.
ne with the courage to laugh is master of the world almost as much as the one who is ready to die.
Love |
Of three things the devil makes a salad: advocate's tongues, notaries' fingers, and a third that shall be nameless.
Individual | Thought | Will | Thought |
No day but has its evening.
Sons may look and behave like their fathers. This is due to inheritance and the example observed closely and daily.