Adolfo Perez Esquivel Quotes

#1. Consider in 1945, when the United Nations was first formed, there were something like fifty-one original member countries. Now the United Nations is made up of 193 nations, but it follows the same structure in which five nations control it. It's an anti-democratic structure.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

#2. Plimpton was a presence. He looked for ways in which he could make himself ridiculous. That made him a great storyteller.

Stefan Fatsis

#3. Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you.

Khalil Gibran

#4. Don't stand back with your arms folded; step forward ... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

#5. I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.

Jennifer Hudson

#6. I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.

Bell Hooks

#7. I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.

Fernando Pessoa

#8. There was a part of my brain that wanted to ask if his wife had a beard, verify my theory. I told that part of my brain to shut up.

R.R. Virdi

#9. We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

#10. There is such thing as a 'smart bomb' - bombs are smart these days, you know.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

#11. There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you ... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

Ruth Stout

#12. The best power of all is to be free, but Obama is not a free person. He is a prisoner of a military system. He talked about closing Guantanamo and ending the war in Iraq. Now he's taken on another war. What's happening?

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

#13. To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Eckhart Tolle

#14. We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

#15. The promise was void, like so many other sweet, illusory promises of our childhood; void as promises made in Eden before the seasons were divided, and when the starry blossoms grew side by side with the ripening peach, - impossible to be fulfilled when the golden gates had been passed.

George Eliot

#16. Congratulations on your new Amazon Fire Stick, as you now have an awesome little device that is going to help give you one of the largest selections of new videos and TV shows available on any streaming stick or box.

Nathaniel Hill

#17. For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

#18. He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors.
He felt as if he had left the great seance and all the murmuring ghosts.
He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new.

Ray Bradbury

#19. There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

Countee Cullen

#20. The more time we spend with Mother nature the more we fall in love with her.

Anthony D. Williams

#21. Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

#22. Nonviolence is absolute respect for each human being.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

#23. If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so! on them will our affections, and consequently our desires and thoughts, be principally fixed.

John Owen