"Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods."

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Source : "Luis A. Ferré Dies at 99; Pushed Puerto Rican Statehood" by Douglas Martin, www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2003.

Luis A. Ferre

#Ideas Quotes #Conservative Quotes #Revolutionary Quotes

“You can do a million different funks from a million different people and you'll never get anything exactly alike - that's what's so beautiful about it.”
“No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.”

Source : "In Rare, Blunt Speech, Saudi King Criticizes Syria Vetoes" by Rick Gladstone, www.nytimes.com. February 10, 2012.
“Color does to me what the touch of the earth did to the giant Antaeus - sends new life, vitality, courage, initiative surging through me. Sometime the scientists will discover that color is a renewer of life.”
“Once you say 'I want to find Truth', all your life will be deeply affected by it. All your mental and physical habits, feelings and emotions, desires and fears, plans and decisions will undergo a most radical transformation.”
“Beware the man of the single book”
“Here I stand; I can do no other.”
“Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.”

Source : Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.78, W. W. Norton & Company
“Did you see all that? Did you see that little baby girl? I carried her body and buried it as best I could but I had no time. It really gets to me to see children being killed like this, but we had no choice.”

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