Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#Years #Weapons #Hunger
The fight against hunger and poverty is also predicated on the creation of a world order that accords priority to social and economic development.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#Fighting #Order #Priorities
Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#Lying #People #Desire
Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#Innocence #Innocent
A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#War #Support #Lasting Love
Well-fed people can enhance their dignity, their health and their learning capacity. Putting resources into social programs is not expenditure. It is investment.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#Health #People #Dignity
Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#Pain #People #World
I will never tire from repeating my commitment to ensuring that every Brazilian can have breakfast, lunch and supper every day.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#Commitment #Lunch #Breakfast
The growing use of biofuel will be an inestimable contribution to the generation of income, social inclusion and reduction of poverty in many poor countries of the world.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#Country #Income #Generations
I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#Fighting #Doe #Needs
We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#America #Action #Construction
Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#Important #Trade #Free Trade
It is clear that Messi is on a level above all others. Those who do not see that are blind.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#Messi #Levels #Blind
Every time he plays, Leo Messi reminds me more of Maradona, both left-footed and short, Messi is the best player in the world, along with KakÃ¡ and Cristiano Ronaldo. For us it is not a surprise. Since he began to come and train with us and we knew we would go down this path. Someday I will explain that I was at the birth of one of the footballing greats: Leo Messi.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#Player #Path #Messi
The true path to peace is shared development. If we do not want war to go global, justice must go global
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#War #Justice #Development
Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring security.War can only generate monsters: bitterness, intolerance, fundamentalism, and the damaging denial of current hegemonies.The poor must be given reasons to live, not to kill or die.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#Country #Strong #War
If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if the fight against hunger and poverty were a real priority for the international community.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#Real #Fighting #Priorities
No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#Environmental #Development #Hunger
I am the son of an illiterate father and mother
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#Mother #Father #Son
Brazil is in a solid position. In the past, if the United States sneezed, we caught pneumonia. Today, if the United States sneezes, we sneeze too.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#Past #Pneumonia #Brazil
A long time ago I learned not to put the blame for backwardness in Brazil on the US. We have to blame ourselves. Our backwardness is caused by an elite which for a century didn't think about the majority and subordinated itself to foreign interests.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#Thinking #Long #Majority
Without Messi there isn't a team for Argentina, Messi is brilliant, different, with a strong mentality. Let's hope he doesn't change.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#Strong #Team #Messi
My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#Country #Desire #Overcoming

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