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Turning to a useful neo-Keynesianism on a global scale in order to abolish the world’s most flagrant embarrassments would be a thousand times more profitable than making war.
Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)
We are a republican voice for the world – a proclamation that has been interpreted to signpost a “possible future, a path, however modest, to take for the common good with politics as its ethical base and honesty as its guiding light.
The globalized economy has no other driving force except that of the private interests of the very few, and each nation State seeks only to maintain its own stability.
Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)
With talent and collective work, with science, step by step humankind can make deserts green; humankind can bring agriculture to the seas; humankind can develop agriculture that lives with salt water.
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...has always been in crisis with authoritarianism. So democracy can never be considered to be finished or perfect, the end of history does not exist, historical steps exist.
Stupefied, we have rejected our own biological imperative, which defends life for life’s sake as a superior cause, and we have replaced it by functional consumerism and accumulation.
Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)
I bear upon my shoulders the indigenous cultures, the remains of colonialism in the Malvinas, and the futile and regrettable blockades of Cuba under the Caribbean sun.
Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)
What is the big picture of which we speak? It is the system of global life on Earth, including human life, with all the fragile balances that make it impossible for us to continue as we are.
Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)
It is possible to eliminate poverty from the planet. It is possible to create stability. It will be possible for future generations, if they begin to reason as a species and not just as individuals...
Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)
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. This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.
It seems that we have been born, only to consume. And when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration, we suffer from poverty and we are marginalized....
Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)