Quotes by Jose Mujica

About Jose Mujica:

José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordano is a Uruguayan politician who was the 40th President of Uruguay between 2010 and 2015. A former urban guerrilla fighter with the Tupamaros, he was imprisoned for 13 years during the military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s. A member of the Broad Front coalition of left-wing parties, Mujica was Minister of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries from 2005 to 2008 and a Senator afterwards. As the candidate of the Broad Front, he won the 2009 presidential election and took office as President on 1 March 2010.
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I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the aut...

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The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.

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There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

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The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.

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Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.

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My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.

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There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.

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I'll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I ha...

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All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.

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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.

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I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.

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Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.

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I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me.

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When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

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The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.

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Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.

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I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.

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I give myself the luxury of saying what I want.

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I learned that one can always start again.

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If I worried about pollsters, I wouldn't be president.

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Author Bio

  • NameJose Mujica
  • DescriptionUruguayan politician
  • AliasesJosé Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordano
  • BornMay 20, 1935
  • CountryUruguay
  • ProfessionPolitician; Farmer
  • AwardsNational Order Of Merit; Order Of The Sun