Peron Quotes

#1. I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth.

Tamara Tunie

#2. Many people see Eva Peron as either a saint or the incarnation of Satan. That means I definitely can identify with her.

Madonna Ciccone

#3. My favorite scene that I ever filmed was singing "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from the balcony of the Casa Rosada in Argentina [where the real Eva Peron once stood] during Evita. That was amazing. SO real and surreal. Bizarre.

Madonna Ciccone

#4. Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.

Alma Guillermoprieto

#5. I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron and my people.

Evita Peron

#6. I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron.

Evita Peron

#7. I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day, sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .

Evita Peron

#8. Among the roles I've played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.

Bob Gunton

#9. Yes, well I do have plenty of clothes, jewels and money. However I don't ask for money for myself but if some one gives me money I take it and put it in The Eva Peron Foundation which gives huge amounts of money to the poor and helps to build hospitals , schools and old peoples' homes .

Bill Vaughan

#10. If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have.

Margaret Thatcher

#11. A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

Vivien Leigh

#12. Sometimes I have wished my insults were slaps or lashes; I've wanted to hit people in the face and make them see, if only for a day, what I see each day I help people.

Evita Peron

#13. I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.

Evita Peron

#14. Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

Evita Peron

#15. Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.

Evita Peron

#16. One cannot accomplish anything without fanatacism.

Evita Peron

#17. I will return and I will be a million.

Evita Peron

#18. Every cannabis user is a medical patient whether they know it or not

Dennis Peron

#19. Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

Evita Peron

#20. Time is my greatest enemy.

Evita Peron

#21. I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

Evita Peron

#22. Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.

Evita Peron

#23. Put down me for a lifetime of success: give me credit, I'll find ways of paying.

Evita Peron

#24. My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

Evita Peron

#25. Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all

Evita Peron

#26. I am my own woman.

Evita Peron

#27. People think it's legalization, it's being sold as legalization-even though it's the opposite of legalization.

Dennis Peron

#28. To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.

Evita Peron

#29. In government, one actress is enough.

Evita Peron

#30. When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Evita Peron

#31. I want nothing for myself ... My glory is and always will be ... the banner of my people, and even if I leave shreds of my life on the wayside I know that you will gather them up in my name and carry them like a flag to victory.

Evita Peron

#32. I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.

Evita Peron

#33. If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

Evita Peron

#34. Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.

Evita Peron

#35. Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

Evita Peron

#36. If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing.

Evita Peron

#37. I will come again, and I will be millions.

Evita Peron

#38. Our President has declared that the only privileged person in our country are the children.

Evita Peron

#39. I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange thing is that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there were people who were rich.

Evita Peron

#40. The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.

Evita Peron

#41. You must want! You have the right to ask! You must desire.

Evita Peron

#42. Suffer little children and come unto me.

Evita Peron

#43. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

Evita Peron