Quotes of famous people

“I'd like to start the show by showing you something I'm very proud of. You'll have to step back, though.”

“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”

“Atheism is a non-prophet organization.”

“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”

“The Chilean far right did not win an election: it won oblivion. And with those who vote against memory, there is no debate—because dialogue begins only where consciousness still remains.”

“So much immorality, so much petty selfishness in using migrants for mere electoral interests.”

“Power does not need to impose itself when it manages to pay you for your silence: a punctual paycheck is enough to make obedience seem like common sense.”

“The right does not deny the disappeared detainees: it manages them as silence. For them, they are not absent bodies but obstacles already overcome; and upon that well-ordered grave they build their idea of a country.”

“There will remain the trace of Trump and right-wing policies: warped decisions, brutal words, and the habit of treating human dignity as a nuisance.”

“The UN’s silence in the face of Trump is the final stone in its own grave.”

“Then will come the excuse of those who supported this New World, saying they did not know, that it was exaggerated, that they were only defending order.”

“And there will remain the uncomfortable memory, the precise recollection of the day when, following Trump and his policies, they accepted the unacceptable without questioning it.”

“In Guadalajara, those who have never waited for a bus under the sun, who have never breathed the heavy air of a public hospital nor reached out to the government for help, raise their hands to decide for you.”

“Critical thinking ends up domesticated by the noise of political and religious partisanship, because in these lands doubting becomes betrayal and thinking a suspicious act.”

“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”

“Many people … go through life with hardly an original thought; gravitate from one pleasure or amusement to another; gain a livelihood doing what someone else has assigned; flee boredom as best they can; marry and beget children; and then, without having made the slightest difference of any unique significance, die and decay like any animal.”

“Instead of supposing that a work of art must be something that all can behold—a poem, a painting, a book, a great building—consider making your own life a work of art. You have yourself to begin with, and a time of uncertain duration to work on it. You do not have to be what you are, and even though you may be quite content with who you are, it will not be hard for you to think of something much greater that you might become. It need not be something spectacular or even something that will attract notice from others. What it will be is a kind of excellence that you project for yourself, and then attain—something that you can take a look at, with honest self-appraisal, and be proud of.”

“What is remarkable is that human beings are actually able to carry out this code-breaking operation, that the human mind has the necessary intellectual equipment for us to "unlock the secrets of nature"…”

“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”