Mobutu Sese Seko Quotes

The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little.

If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up

When you have the ball in your hand, you're the most important guy in the whole organization.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.

Influence is not government.

The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

Rules with an iron fist, but sometimes in that fist is a rose.

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

Authority is 20% given and 80% taken...so take it!

If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.

The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and the political leader has only to harvest what has been sown.

Power: a currency that never went out of style.

Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

Law is the rudder of the ship of state.