Explore Quotes by Jose Mujica

The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.

I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.

If the inmates of Guantanamo want to make their nests in Uruguay, they can do it.

We can't avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.

I don't know whether I like this planet or not. But I have to accept it.

My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values.

I know prisons from the inside.

I am an austere president.

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.

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.

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.

No addiction is good.

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.

All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.

A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics.

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.

The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.

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.