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José Mujica Quotes

1935–2025

Also known as: José Pepe Mujica, Pepe Mujica, Pepe

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The only thing I'm sure of is that the policy of combating drugs which has been enforced for decades is a crashing failure.

That NATO advance makes no sense. It is going to lead us again to a division of the world.

Consider that human life is a miracle, that we are alive as a result of a miracle, and that nothing is more important than life.

Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)

Anyone who looks at a map to say that Venezuela could be a threat has to be quite mad. Venezuelans have a marvelous Constitution – the most audacious in all of Latin America.

Today, it is time to fight to prepare a world without borders.

Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)

Today, the world is incapable of establishing global regulations for the planet, due to the failure of lofty global politics, which meddles with everything.

Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)

Democracy is old, very old; it is an attitude of man… Democracy is an imminent attitude, but one that has always been in crisis with authoritarianism.

Truly productive capitalism is a prisoner of the banks, which are at the summit of global power.

Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)

Politics, the eternal mother of all human endeavors, has remained shackled to the economy and to the marketplace.

Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)

Every minute in the life of our planet, we spend $2 million on military budgets around the world — $2 million a minute.

Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)

If the power of humankind is focused on what is essential, it is infinite.

Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)

The world is clamoring for global regulations that respect scientific achievements, which abound, but it is not science that governs the world.

Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)

Our civilization has mounted a deceitful challenge, and as we go on it is not possible for everyone to achieve that goal.

Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)

We have finally learned that intelligence must be at the helm, guiding the ship to port.

Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)

I also bear the consequences of the electronic surveillance, which does nothing but create the distrust that poisons us needlessly.

Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)

Our biological duty is, above all, to respect life, promote it, take care of it, reproduce it and understand that WE are the species.

Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)

Let us consider the deep-rooted causes, the civilization of waste, the present civilization that is stealing time from human life and wasting it on pointless matters.

Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)

Medical research on all manner of diseases, which has made huge advances and is a blessing that promises longer life, receives barely a fifth of what is budgeted for the military.

Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)

I also come with a huge social debt and with the need to defend the Amazon, the seas, and our great rivers of America.

Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)

We do not need tolerance for those with whom we agree. Tolerance is the foundation of peaceful coexistence, understanding that we are all different in this world.

Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)

Attribution

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