"I give myself the luxury of saying what I want." — Jose Mujica

If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.

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 have repented!

No addiction is good.

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.

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.

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.

Publicly, I've never talked about Argentina.

I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.

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I give myself the luxury of saying what I want.