Luis Munoz Marin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid point. To assert that Americans are naive, Germans humourless and the French arrogant is one thing: they're big enough to take it. But to say that there's a conspiracy of Jewish bankers, that gypsies are thieves, Pakistanis are dirty and refugees are muggers is something quite else.

  • Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

  • I love controlling a race, chewing up an opponent. Let's get down and dirty. Let's fight it out. It's raw, animalistic, with no one to rely on but yourself. There's no better feeling than that.

  • [Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.

  • In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

  • Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

  • Sunny, happy with the music, no money. I'm thinking you're on holiday. Sipping yellow lemonade.

  • Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

  • Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

  • Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.