Zitat des Tages von Jose Mujica:
If the inmates of Guantanamo want to make their nests in Uruguay, they can do it.
Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.
There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.
Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.
The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.
Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.
I don't know whether I like this planet or not. But I have to accept it.
I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me.
I'll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I have repented!
There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.
The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.
My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values.
I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.
My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.
The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.
Publicly, I've never talked about Argentina.