A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about past, fasting, present, society, world
Quotes by Ibrahim Babangida
31 quotes by Ibrahim Babangida
Ibrahim Babangida, Nigerian stateman
Was born on 17 aug 1941.
Origin country: Nigeria
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about reality, society, need, people
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about survival, evolution, leadership, bad luck, good luck, chance, nation
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about opinion, culture, history
Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about democracy, past, use
Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.
Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about leadership, affair
For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about force, poverty, people
I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about events, authority, need
If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about liberty, society
Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about democracy, experience, history, nothing
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about nature
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about civilization, books, human imperfections
Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about essential, liberty, character, change, nothing, love, people
Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about evolution
Our defining imperative was therefore to liberate the energies of Nigerians and lay the groundwork for a free society.
Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about society
The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.
Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about economy, democracy, order
The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about democracy, history, country, world
