Jorge Majfud Quotes

born 1969 United States

Jorge Majfud (born 10 September 1969) is a Uruguayan-American professor and author, widely recognized as one of the most significant Latino American intellectuals.

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The worst thing that can happen to a democracy is that its citizens leave the politics in the hands of politicians.

Before the great civil revolution there will be a deepening of the crisis of this obsolete order.

Probably a form of radical democracy will be the next step humanity is ready to take.

Terrorism is not justified with anything, but it’s explained with everything.

There’s no better strategy against a true rumor than inventing another fake one that claims to confirm it.

Memorias de un desaparecido (1996)

A society is not defined as developed by the wealth it has but by the poverty it doesn’t have.

We inhabit the cities of the dead and their ideas inhabit us every day.

The fear of the other makes us resemble the other who fears us.

Cybors (2012)

Trying to reduce environmental pollution without reducing consumerism is like combatting drug trafficking without reducing the drug addiction.

Hypocrisy is a luxury of the powerful.

While universities make robots that look more like human beings every time, not only because of their proven intelligence but now also because of their abilities to express and receive emotions, the consumerist habits are making us every time more similar to robots.

Cybors (2012)

Don’t think we’re indifferent. What happens is that normally we’re busy with something that is not the others.

La ciudad de la Luna (2009)

We call reality
to madness that remains
and madness to reality that vanishes

La ciudad de la Luna (2009)

It’s not by chance that most of the basketball players are tall men, nor that most of the transvestite are homosexuals. It’s also not a coincidence that most of those who hold the power are ambitious people. In other words, it’s not a coincidence that the world is ruled by people who shouldn’t rule.

Critica de la pasión pura (1998)

That blind attitude of the Society of Knowledge is similar in all to the proud consideration that "our language is better because it’s understood."
Just that with a completely tragic intensity, that could be translated like this: "our dead are true because they hurt."

"Los hombres y las mujeres (sobre todo los hombres) han escrito las leyes y las constituciones. Los hombres y las mujeres (sobre todo las mujeres) pueden y deben volver a escribirlos según las necesidades de los vivos, no de los muertos"

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jorge Majfud (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.