"Today, near the end of my days, I want to say that I harbor no rancor against anybody, that I love my fatherland above all and that I take political responsibility for everything that was done which had no other goal than making Chile greater and avoiding its disintegration.... I assume full political responsibility for what happened."

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Source : "Pinochet Takes 'Political Responsibility' for Actions of Chilean Dictatorship". Associated Press, www.washingtonpost.com. November 26, 2006.

Augusto Pinochet

#Responsibility Quotes #Goal Quotes #Political Quotes

“Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.”

Source : "The American Paradox: A History of the United States Since 1945" by Steven M. Gillon, (p. 322), January 1, 2012.
“And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.”

Source : Antonin Artaud (1988). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.485, Univ of California Press
“It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.”
“Although we are aware that North Korea is attaching importance to the liquidation of the past, that is difficult unless there is progress over the abduction issue.”
“And when I have lived elsewhere, every two weeks I have to fly back to LA. Even New York directors go there to audition. So I have to be there to a degree.”
“Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.”
“Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and all of a sudden, I'm in show business.”
“The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.”

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