Ferdinand Marcos Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Ferdinand Marcos:

Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino workers have helped improve our skills and technological standards.

I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.

Ferdinand Marcos

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

Ferdinand Marcos

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Ferdinand Marcos

Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.

Ferdinand Marcos

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

Ferdinand Marcos

Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino workers have helped improve our skills and technological standards.

Ferdinand Marcos

To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.

Ferdinand Marcos

My friends in the opposition have forgotten that the constitution of the Philippines was amended in 1973 with their participation. The constitution mandates the administration, including the Batasan, or legislature, to convert slowly into a semiparliamentary form of government. The president in such a situation can issue decrees and edicts.

Ferdinand Marcos

I am not afraid to go to jail.

Ferdinand Marcos

I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.

Ferdinand Marcos

Little boys have amazing minds.

Ferdinand Marcos

The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

Ferdinand Marcos

I have been called brave in my time, but brave as I may have been against foreign invaders, I have no heart to shed Filipino blood.

Ferdinand Marcos

If it were true that special favors were given to some of these people because they are my cronies, then they should still be here, and they should be wealthy. But who are these cronies? If there be any cronies in government, point them out, and we will investigate.

Ferdinand Marcos

Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.

Ferdinand Marcos

America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asian cultures, governments, economic and political systems; the second, that to run against the tide of Asian nationalism is worse than impractical - it is also highly dangerous.

Ferdinand Marcos

What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.

Ferdinand Marcos

Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody else that we will overcome.

Ferdinand Marcos

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

Ferdinand Marcos

There is a standard joke in the family. Probably we should go into selling second-hand shoes.

Ferdinand Marcos

The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

Ferdinand Marcos

I will fight to the last breath, even though my family cowers in terror in the palace.

Ferdinand Marcos

I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.

Ferdinand Marcos

We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.

Ferdinand Marcos

How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?

Ferdinand Marcos

We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun, they must be dealt with and met accordingly.

Ferdinand Marcos