My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.
Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.
All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.
The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.
When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.
Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.
If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.
I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.
I learned that one can always start again.
I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.
There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.
I give myself the luxury of saying what I want.
A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics.
If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.
Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.
The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.
The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.
There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.
I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me.
Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.
