Regis Debray Quotes

#1. The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.

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#2. Since the Cuban Revolution and since the invasion of Santo Domingo a state of emergency has existed in Latin America. The Marines shoot at anything that moves, regardless of partyaffiliation.

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#3. We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.

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#4. The man of the future will be young or he will not be.

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#5. There is something of the ghoul in the page-swallower and of the novel-reader in the stroller through cemeteries.

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#6. Machines will never be able to give the thinking process a model of thought itself, since machines are not mortal. What gives humans access to the symbolic domain of value and meaning is the fact that we die.

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#7. Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.

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#8. God, a born extremist, is the diplomat's worst enemy. Quite apart from the fact that His decrees are irrevocable, the Absolute will not allow anyone to relativize matters.

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#9. Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition.

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#10. Religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble.

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