He may agree or disagree with the former President of Uruguay, José Mujica, his decisions, policies and even his image may be questionable, but if anything characterized him it was his brilliant way of promoting a philosophy based on social freedom, solidarity and respect. for reflection.
Here is a selection of his best phrases:
1. Si had a lot of stuff, I’d have to take care of them. The real freedom is to consume little.
2. Yes, a world with better humanity is possible. But perhaps today’s first task is to save lives.
3. “With the passage of time, it is not possible to fill that feeling of waste that we have.
4. “Power does not change people, it only reveals who they really are.
Living better is not just having more, it’s being happier
6. ? I want to know the truth, but I don’t believe in justice.
7. “You have to respect, especially when it hurts the most.
8. The inevitable does not cry. We have to face the inevitable
9. “Yes, I’m tired, but it doesn’t stop until the day I’m taken in a coffin or when I’m an old lelé.
10. “Our world needs fewer global organizations to serve more hotel chains, and more humanity and science.
11. “We were born only to consume and when we cannot, we carry with frustration, poverty and even self-marginalization and self-exclusion.
12. “We occupy the temple with the god Market: it organizes the economy, politics, habits, life and even finances the emergence of happiness in installments.
13. “Even if the economy becomes global, our hearts, our subjectivity cannot become global.
14. “We have razed forests, real forests and planted anonymous cement forests.
15. “We face a sedentary lifestyle with mats, insomnia with pills, loneliness with technology.
16. La freedom is so that we can think differently, because to agree, freedom is not necessary.
17. Man today does not rule the forces he disarmed; the forces that have disarmed govern man.
18. No let youth fly from the inside. The outside, inevitably, takes time. But there is a youth to fight for, in the territory, looking at each other, and it is linked to a very simple and very small word: solidarity with the human condition.
19. “The impossible costs a little more, and only those who surrender the weapons and surrender are defeated.
20. Je doesn’t look back because today’s real was born in yesterday’s fertile ashes.
21. “Being free means spending most of your life in what you like to do.
22. “War will continue until nature calls us and makes our civilization unbearable.
23. “In the distance, the journey is shorter
24. “I feel angry, I warm up, I say nonsense, but I can’t cultivate hate (?).
25. “I have a gigantic social debt and the need to defend the Amazon, the seas, our great rivers of America. “
26. “Modern man is always in a hurry, because if the economy does not grow, it is a tragedy”.
27. “Politicians must live as most people live and not as the minority lives. “
27. “There are things that have value when lost. 28” If we aspire, in this humanity, to consume as the American average, it would take three planets to live.
29. “We promise a life of waste and contempt, which is essentially a countdown to nature and humanity as a future.
3rd. ” Politics is the struggle for everyone’s happiness. “