Jose Mujica Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Jose Mujica:
I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.
~Jose Mujica
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I know prisons from the inside.
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There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.
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The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.
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No addiction is good.
~Jose Mujica
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Publicly, I've never talked about Argentina.
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I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.
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Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.
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We can't avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.
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The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.
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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.
~Jose Mujica
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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.
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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!
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I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.
~Jose Mujica
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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.
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If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.
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The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.
~Jose Mujica
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I learned that one can always start again.
~Jose Mujica
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The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.
~Jose Mujica
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I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.
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If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.
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I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me.
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My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values.
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All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.
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The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.
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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.
~Jose Mujica
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I don't know whether I like this planet or not. But I have to accept it.
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My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.
~Jose Mujica
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When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.
~Jose Mujica
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A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics.
~Jose Mujica
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I give myself the luxury of saying what I want.
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I am an austere president.
~Jose Mujica
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If the inmates of Guantanamo want to make their nests in Uruguay, they can do it.
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Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.
~Jose Mujica
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If I worried about pollsters, I wouldn't be president.
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