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Joxe Azurmendi Quotes

1941–2025 Spain

Joxe Azurmendi (19 March 1941 – 1 July 2025) was a Basque writer, philosopher, essayist and poet.

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The price of freedom is to decide moral and political issues.

Tyrannies, when they are strong, and democracies, when they are weak, can not tolerate criticism.

The philosopher is not someone who has thought instead of us but rather someone who makes us think.

Oraingo gazte eroak (1998)

The Basques are Argonauts with very fragile ships.

Interview in Hegats 45 (2010)

Is not true that, in this world, before being paper citizens we are our mother's sons in the flesh. What is a human being in reality? To start from the beginning: What are peoples, cultures and what are then custom-houses, parliaments and states? Everybody carries a nursery rhyme in the soul, but nobody carries a passport or a custom-house in the soul.

Demokratak eta biolentoak (1997)

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