Top 7 Meles Zenawi Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you’re finished.”

— Meles Zenawi

2. “As we respond to the assault of our enemy and defend our country, we must never break international laws. Crime can not be solved by more crime.”

— Meles Zenawi

3. “Of course everybodys thinking evolves over time.”

— Meles Zenawi

4. “Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books.”

— Meles Zenawi

5. “It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.”

— Meles Zenawi

6. “As a person, I have never been discourteous or nasty to anybody. I may have stood my ground a bit too directly, a bit too firmly, and I believe I have, over a number of years, learned to be a little less direct.”

— Meles Zenawi

7. “I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.”

— Meles Zenawi

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