I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live. My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history. There have been years when I would have been happy just to have a mattress. Jose Mujica More Quotes by Jose Mujica More Quotes From Jose Mujica I know prisons from the inside. Jose Mujica prisons inside know My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values. Jose Mujica like values way thinking When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion. Jose Mujica you living companion solitude I'll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I have repented! Jose Mujica i-am good black-and-white black The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide. Jose Mujica against fight smuggling lost The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary. Jose Mujica you change world thinking There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses. Jose Mujica who great power believe A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics. Jose Mujica go politics money people I learned that one can always start again. Jose Mujica learned again start always I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff. Jose Mujica live stand poverty energy All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way. Jose Mujica my-life born life way I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us. Jose Mujica politics sick age religion Publicly, I've never talked about Argentina. Jose Mujica talked about never argentina Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force. Jose Mujica american more force important Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament. Jose Mujica parliament constitution government
