Jose Mujica Quotes

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Jose Mujica

Profession : Statesman

Birth : May 20, 1935

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

My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.

Jose Mujica

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

I give myself the luxury of saying what I want.

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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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The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.

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I know prisons from the inside.

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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 world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.

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I learned that one can always start again.

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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.

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I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.

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When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

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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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I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.

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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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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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No addiction is good.

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The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

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Publicly, I've never talked about Argentina.

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