Top 53 Jose Mujica Quotes
#1. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.
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#2. 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.
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#3. I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes.
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#4. What was my great sin? To have revealed the private property of the bank - well if this is being a criminal, then maybe I'm a great criminal.
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#5. If I worried about pollsters, I wouldn't be president.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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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#8. The secret of happiness is living in accordance with how one thinks. Be yourself and don't try to impose your criteria on the rest. I don't expect others to live like me. I want to respect people's freedom but I defend my freedom.
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#9. The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.
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#10. Publicly, I've never talked about Argentina.
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#11. There are people who say that you can't experiment ... That condemns you to failure.
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#12. My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.
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#13. No country can solve climate change alone, we have to take global measures.
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#14. I give myself the luxury of saying what I want.
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#15. In life you can fall down 1000 times but the point is to have the willingness to stand up and to start again.
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#16. We have sacrificed the old immaterial gods, and now we are occupying the temple of the Market-God. He organizes our economy, our politics, our habits, our lives, and even provides us with rates and credit cards and gives us the appearance of happiness.
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#17. The way the banks behave is frankly unbearable. I didn't rob for me. I expropriated resources for a struggle. If I had robbed for myself that would be different.
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#18. If the inmates of Guantanamo want to make their nests in Uruguay, they can do it.
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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.
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#22. I have a way of life that I don't change just because I am a president. I earn more than I need, even if it's not enough for others. For me, it is no sacrifice, it's a duty.
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#23. I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me.
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#25. If I asked people to live as I live, they would kill me,
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#26. Worse that drugs is drug trafficking. Much worse. Drugs are a disease, and I don't think that there are good drugs or that marijuana is good. Nor cigarettes. No addiction is good. I include alcohol. The only good addiction is love. Forget everything else.
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. I don't know whether I like this planet or not. But I have to accept it.
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#31. The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.
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#32. Some people love money and get into politics. If they love money so much, they should get into commerce, industry, or do whatever they want - it's no sin. But politics is for serving the people.
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#33. My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.
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#34. I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live,
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#35. I learned that one can always start again.
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#36. I never killed anyone because it wasn't necessary. I could have killed.
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#37. Uruguay is a country which has grown from immigration, people from all over. That is our origin.
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#38. 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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#39. What's sad is that an 80-year-old grandpa has to be the open-minded one. Old people aren't old because of their age, but because of what's in their heads. They are horrified at this, but they aren't horrified at what's happening in the streets?
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#40. When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.
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#42. I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.
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#43. It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration, and we suffer from poverty, and we are auto-marginalized.
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#45. Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.
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#46. A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics.
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#47. 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.
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#48. I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.
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#49. The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.
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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.
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#53. We can't avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.
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