“I find amusing the writings of many theoreticians of neo-liberalism and neo-liberal globalization. ”
Quotes
“A man’s ideas might disappear with him, but the ideas that have taken root in the soul and in the heart of a nation can never die.”
"El mundo será conquistado por las ideas y no por la fuerza, cuyo poder para sojuzgar y dominar a la humanidad será cada vez menor. Sólo la paz y la cooperación entre los pueblos serán capaces de preservar a la humanidad de la muerte con que la amenazan por la vía del saqueo, la explotación, las guerras y la destrucción de las condiciones de vida del planeta."
"There is no weapon more powerful than a profound conviction and clear idea of what must be done. It is with these kinds of weapons, which do not require enormous sums of money, but only the capacity to create and transmit just ideas and values, that our people will be increasingly armed."
"Just ideas have greater power than all the reactionary forces put together."
“A statesman, or whoever claims to be one, should know that down through history really humane ideas of justice have been shown to be much more powerful than force; force leaves in its wake only dusty, contemptible ruins; humane ideas leave a luminous trail that no one will ever be able to extinguish. Every era has had its own ideas, both good and bad ones, and they have accumulated. But the worst, most sinister and uncertain ideas belong in this era in which we live in a barbarous, uncivilized, globalized world.”
“It is clear that despite all the difficulties and all the setbacks, the truth will out, the most just ideas multiply and millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions are uniting on the side of truth, and this truth, or these truths will end up crushing the empire, and not only from outside but also from inside.”
"We possess a weapon as powerful as nuclear power and it is the immense justice for which we are struggling. Our nuclear weapon is the invincible power of moral weapons. That is why we have never even considered producing them, nor have we ever considered seeking biological weapons".
“Let us fight against egoism, vanity and the sterile ambition for glory which are serpents devouring human souls; let us be the bearers of ideas and conscience, ever onward and upward, together with our glorious forefathers.”