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

— Jorge Majfud

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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)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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