Subcomandante Marcos famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.
-- Subcomandante Marcos

#Sorry #Revolution #Inconvenience
As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal,â€¦ a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.
-- Subcomandante Marcos

#Gay #Israel #Europe
Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without
-- Subcomandante Marcos

#War #Choices #Dignity
All cultures forged by nationsâ€”the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth of Africa and Oceaniaâ€”are corroded by the American way of life. In this way, neoliberalism imposes the destruction of nations and groups of nations in order to reconstruct them according to a single model. This is a planetary war, of the worst and cruelest kind, waged against humanity.
-- Subcomandante Marcos

#Wise #War #Past
The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we will accept their power and our weakness as something that has been established by divine plan. But there is no god behind this war other than the god of money, nor any right other than the desire for death and destruction. Today there is a â€˜NOâ€™ which shall weaken the powerful and strengthen the weak: the â€˜NOâ€™ to war.
-- Subcomandante Marcos

#Powerful #War #Desire
We don't want to impose our solutions by force, we want to create a democratic space. We don't see armed struggle in the classic sense of previous guerrilla wars, that is as the only way and the only all-powerful truth around which everything is organized. In a war, the decisive thing is not the military confrontation but the politics at stake in the confrontation. We didn't go to war to kill or be killed. We went to war in order to be heard.
-- Subcomandante Marcos

#Powerful #War #Military
Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable - this is Marcos.
-- Subcomandante Marcos

#Minorities #Way #Majority
Love is like a teacup that every day falls to the ground and breaks to pieces. In the morning the pieces are gathered and with a little moisture and a little warmth, the pieces are glued together, and again there is a little teacup. He who is in love spends life fearing that the terrible day will come when the teacup is so broken that it can no longer mended.
-- Subcomandante Marcos

#Morning #Fall #Love Is
We are an army of dreamers, and that's why we're invincible.
-- Subcomandante Marcos

#Army #Dreamer #Invincible
In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force.
-- Subcomandante Marcos

#Dancer #Tables #Globalization
Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. Unlike those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this new bomb not only destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery on those who live there, but also transforms its target into just another piece in the puzzle of economic globalization.
-- Subcomandante Marcos

#Military #War #Leaving
In our dreams we have seen another world, an honest world, a world decidedly more fair than the one in which we now live. We saw that in this world there was no need for armies; peace, justice and liberty were so common that no one talked about them as far-off concepts, but as things such as bread, birds, air, water, like book and voice.
-- Subcomandante Marcos

#Dream #Book #Army
We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.
-- Subcomandante Marcos

#Feet #Together #Steps
In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment.
-- Subcomandante Marcos

#Army #Soldier #May
The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world. Take care and do not forget ideas are also weapons.
-- Subcomandante Marcos

#Ideas #Care #Want

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