It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration, and we suffer from poverty, and we are auto-marginalized.
Interpretation
Jose Mujica suggests that life is often reduced to mere consumption, which leads to frustration and marginalization when we cannot consume.
In this quote, Jose Mujica reflects on the modern human condition, highlighting how society often equates worth with consumption. He argues that when individuals can no longer participate in the cycle of consumption, they may feel a deep sense of dissatisfaction and exclusion, emphasizing the poverty of spirit that comes from materialism and societal marginalization.
In practice
In a speech about consumerism and sustainability, one might use this quote to illustrate the downfalls of excessive consumption.
My goal is to achieve a little less injustice in Uruguay, to help the most vulnerable and to leave behind a political way of thinking, a way of looking at the future that will be passed on and used to move forward. There's nothing short-term, no victory around the corner. I will not achieve paradise or anything like that. What I want is to fight for the common good to progress. Life slips by. The way to prolong it is for others to continue your work.
We can almost recycle everything now. If we lived within our means, by being prudent, the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.
If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.
I can live well with what I have.I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more.
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.
I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.
I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.
No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
What I have experienced, and experienced repeatedly, is the silence of God. For many years, this was a distressing matter for me. I did not consider it an experience, but the absence of an experience.
If we do wrong and no harm comes of it, we are not thereby justified. If we did evil and good came of it, the evil would be just as evil. It is not the result of the action, but the action itself which God weighs.
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