Idi Amin: Quotes about people

Idi Amin was third president of Uganda. Explore interesting quotes on people.

Idi Amin: 26 quotes14 likes

“Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.”

Quoted in The Evil 100 (2004) by Martin Gilman Wolcott, p. 78.
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“Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking. I never had any formal education—not even a nursery school certificate. But sometimes I know more than Ph. D. s because as a military man I know how to act. I am a man of action.”

Appears in Barbet Schroeder (1974), General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait.

“In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.”

Quoted in Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations, 1982, Jonathon Green.
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“Hitler and all German people knew that the Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the people of the world and that is why they burnt over six million Jews alive on the soil of Germany. The world should remember that the palestinians, with the assitance of Germany made the operation possible in the Olympic village.”

Telegram sent to Kurt Waldheim in 1972 after the Munich massacre.
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