Fernando Henrique Cardoso famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society.
-- Fernando Henrique Cardoso

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Let us continue to strive together for a more inclusive, democratic, and peaceful future for us all.
-- Fernando Henrique Cardoso

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It is impossible to build enduring institutions without solid values. For us, the fundamental value is that associated with democracy.
-- Fernando Henrique Cardoso

#Democracy #Fundamentals #Impossible
Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation and leave their political supporters deeply disillusioned. You can't inflate away your troubles or allow mountains of debt to build up if, as a country, you have to make your living in a globally competitive environment... Building prosperity requires caution and patience. It requires time. Populism is a short cut that doesn't work.
-- Fernando Henrique Cardoso

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I am not proposing to replace war with peace. I propose to replace war with a smarter fight. A fight using other instruments, more intelligent instruments to convince people not to use drugs.
-- Fernando Henrique Cardoso

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In my own experience as president of Brazil I observed first hand many of the trends that Nam identifies in this book, but he describes them in a way that is as original as it is delightful to read. All those who have power-or want it-should read this book.
-- Fernando Henrique Cardoso

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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.
We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.
The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.
Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.
The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or of alien.
Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.

Fernando Henrique Cardoso famous quotes

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