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Shaka
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“Strike an enemy once and for all. Let him cease to exist as a tribe or he will live to fly in your throat again.”
Shaka (1786–1828) said by 1828 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Advice to King Dingiswayo on the treatment of the defeated Ndwandwe, reported in Shaka Zulu : The Rise of the Zulu Empire (1955) by E. A. Ritter, p. 50
“Up! children of Zulu, your day has come. Up! And destroy them all.”
Shaka (1786–1828) said by 1828 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: While battling the Ndwandwe, reported in Shaka Zulu : The Rise of the Zulu Empire (1955) by E. A. Ritter, p. 179
“I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to water, whilst their heads become giddy and incapable of thinking as the sweat of fear paralyzes them. They know no other will except that of their King, who is something above, and below, this earth.”
Shaka (1786–1828) said by 1828 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Following his mother's death, as reported in Shaka Zulu : The Rise of the Zulu Empire (1955) by E. A. Ritter, p. 319
“Women that bear children must exist in Zululand only.”
Shaka (1786–1828) said by 1828 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement advocating genocidal policies against tribes which opposed his conquests, as reported in Lessons on Leadership by Terror : Finding Shaka Zulu in the Attic (2005) by Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, p. 40