Famous phrases.
...some of them ironically beautiful, other pathetically true. In this section there is a wide variety of phrases. From those created by the popular wit, friends, familiar, etc.; until those said by public figures.

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• "During five centuries you haven't given us love, neither peace, nor justice. Please take your Bible and return it to our oppressors, because they need more its moral precepts than us. Because since Cristobal Columbus' arrival America was imposed a culture, a language, a religion and some Europe values by force."
  A group of Peruvian indigenous returning a Bible to pope John Paul II during his visit to Peru in 1985. "La Jornada", Tuesday 26th January of 1999, page 9.
• "The formation we had was such of a total antiticlericalism. In summer we organized football matches between those who used to believe in God against those who don't use to believe. We were between those who don't believe, four or five, because some boys of our block were believers too. We were accompanied only by the Viral, because they were sons of a Spanish republican couple. The catholic always plenty filled us up of goals, and they rejoiced with the unfaithful rout."
  Roberto Guevara, Che's brother
• "But the real travelers are those who simply depart by the fact of departing; light hearth, akin to a globe, from his fatality they never separate, without knowing why, they always say: Come on!"
  Charles Baudelaire. "The evil flowers"
• "If you fall, I'll hit you"
  My motherly grandmother, taking care of anyone of her grandsons :)
• "If I had painted well all my life, I wouldn't have been so happy."
  Salvador Dalí, Catalan painter.
• "Dead are the lice by making swing on rich's head"
  My grandmother
• "USA didn't demolish Allende. Only the CIA helped with the propaganda" "
  Dave López, 1998, USA soldier and citizen.
• "We'll see each other at the end of universe: there, where time weeps and extinguishes... where regrets will be useless in order to remove value to sin."
  Arturo Huizar, Luzbel's vocalist.
• "We are poor, but honorable"
  My grandmother, when she has spent all the money.
• "FC: ¿But what's the supposed matter we reached?
  REP: That in the FOBAPROA negotiation you went to the 'dark' and negotiated the fall of Guillermo Ortiz.
  FC: I don't see anything else more obscure than the guy who makes the question"
  Felipe Calderón, PAN's president, answering to a swarthy reporter. Taken from the Mexican newspaper "La Jornada", Friday 19th February of 1999, Page 16.
• "The purpose of the american aid consists in permit that people that fights on our side could use more violence."
  Assistant State Secretary Elliot Abrahams, about the nicaraguan contra.
• "We were poor and my grandmother gave birth"
  My grandmother, receiving visits at dinner's hour
• "I'm coming buddy, I'll go to the courts in order to make a challenge"
  Victor Hugo (alias El Jordan), UAM Azcapotzalco student
• "She was leader in her community and was working with the women through Catholic Action (...), she was a very good person, happy, kind, and active (...) The soldiers carried her into a house. She was savagely tortured, they stripped her, raped her, and then they crucified her, they nailed her stand up, they inserted nails in her hands and in her breast, they burnt her alive. They threw around papers where guerillas appeared as bad people or as clowns. Neighbors buried the few remains that found, chunks were burnt, the dogs had eaten her legs. That same day soldiers also violated and crucified another woman".
  Witness 108. Commission for the Historical Elucidation(CEH). Guatemala.
• "The greatness of the mining plant is based on the ten thousand corpses contained by the cemetery"
  Ernesto Che Guevara, in Antofagasta, Chile
• "The same I'm surprised by the fact that a cashier doesn't eat a check, I'm also surprised that any painter prior to me thought about painting a soft clock."
  Salvador Dalí, Catalan painter.
• "I'll prefer to be an illiterate Indian rather than a USA millionaire"
  Ernesto Che Guevara
• "The soldier (...)said that when the ladies were dead he rose the skirt and insert them a stick in the vagina (...), an old woman was hung with a loop in the neck. She was stripped with a banana in the vagina(...) They opened a pregnant woman's belly and drew the baby and they put a stick to the baby in the back until it came out from his mouth".
  Witness 39 C 11162. Ixcán, Quiche. Commission for the Historical Elucidation (CEH). Guatemala.
• "I also want photocopies. ¡They are cheap in front of here!"
  Jorge Cayente Romero, UAM Azcapotzalco historical student .
• "Only those who have been the most sensitive can become the coldest and hard-hearted because they must be surrounded by a hard cuirass and that cuirass will become often a weight"
  Goethe
• "Che was extremely demanding, but I wouldn't even have had a better chief. I'm convinced of the fact that he belonged to a superior men race and I remember that we always chatted about Marx's example, that he had sacrificed everything, even his family, by his work"
  Orlando Borrego's testimony
• "Self-esteem isn't at the things we can possess, but in the capacity of developing the virtue we carry inside."
  ICONOCLASTA, Mexican progressive rock band.
• "If assholes could fly, then the Sun would become covered by them"
  My grandfather
• "What do I have to do boys? This shit has a virus again!"
  C.P. Lucia Azcona Pavon, hysterical after seeing her altered Excel files.
• "Sons of a bitch!! Haven't you seen that fucking sign? You don't play nice, as in my times..shit!! Your fuckin' mother!!"
  The Billares América owner, when he noticed that Willy, friend of the high school, was scratching the table's cloth with the forbidden shot: the massé" (1991)
• "What we made was by the Chile's welfare and we are proud about this."
  Augusto Pinochet, ex-Chilean dictator, nowadays lifetime senator, responsible for the disappearance and assassination of thousands of human beings.
• "Don't bother me, I'm so asshole"
  Anonymous, in order not to profit with the inherent stupidity of author's so self-criticism phrase.
• "I'm against granted quotas by gender as it's in the case of the 30% for the women, because then we would give a space to youths, gays and also lesbians"
  PAN´s counselor Valdemar Rojas, in the National Assembly party intervention. March 22th, 1998
• "What a hell! That's the reason it can't print"
  Yesmín Martínez Achach, after realizing the printer needs paper to print.
• "This Revolution is the first genuine creation of improvement... the most perfectly organized chaos all over the universe."
  Che Guevara
• "Moderation is another of the words the Colony agents love. Moderates are those who have fear or those who think about betraying us in some way. People isn't moderate in any way."
  Che Guevara. Message to the youths, July 28th, 1960
• "He's the most fascinating and dangerous of the triumvirate. Carrying a melancholic sweet smile that many women find smashing, Che drives Cuba with coldly calculation, with vast competence, a high intelligence and a great humor sense. "
  Time, August 8th, 1960
• "...this night we are all met here for trying to express those feelings toward him, who was one of the nearest, one of the most admired, of the most beloved and without doubt the most extraordinary of our revolution comrades."
  Fidel Castro, during the Homage Evening to Che Guevara
• "Che's image can be isolated, commercialized, and laughed, but it's part of the universal system of the revolutionary struggle and at any moment it can recover its original meaning."
  Edmundo Desnoes. Taken from "La imagen del Che y su concepto."
• "It's inhumane blessing when people curse us,"
  Friedrich Nietzsche. Taken from "Beyond good and evil."
• "Christianism has given Eros poison to drink; this has not die, but has become a vice."
  Friedrich Nietzsche. Taken from "Beyond good and evil."
• "What a hell! Is really today the exam?"
  Eduardo García Morán (alias "The Huck"), UAM student, some minutes before the exam and with an outstanding pant in his talk.
• "In the musical work I have shaped my anxiety because of the situation America lives. That it's not precisely United States and which has only received opprobrium from this. I, living there, can realize of the fact that they don't understand us neither understand the Latin America problems, but believe that the solution is in their hands giving weapons and all that. And it's not this way, the solution is in ourselves. There's no other region in the world with better possibilities and alternatives than ours. Therefore I always raise my voice and my music is in favor of these brother peoples."
  Willie Colón, musician, interviewed by "La Jornada" daily.
• "There is something that produces me the biggest disgust: when I think about those boys of the most authentic Christian spirit, riddled in the torture tables, while we see to their killers taking communion during a Sunday mass."
  Ernesto Sábato, Argentinian writer in allusion to the Argentinian dictatorship soldiers.
• "While someone had sexual intercourse with her, some others were masturbating, the others put their hands on her breast, they hit her in the face, some others put their cigarettes on the breast; she lost several times consciousness and each time she regained it, she looked another man over her, at least some 20 judicial raped her; she was in a puddle of rusts, semen, and blood, it was really a very humiliate thing, a mixture of hate, frustration and absolute impotence".
  Witness 28 Witness REMHI, 5447. October, 1979. Commission for the Historical Elucidation(CEH). Guatemala.
• "We started making popular judgments in the squares against them. Thousands of persons went to condemn them. This caused that people would took conscience. Now in a restaurant, when Massera arrives, people leave. They don't want to eat nearby an assassin, they dont' want to see him. It's part of the penalty of a people that is not resigned to impunity ."
  Plaza de Mayo mothers.
• "I speak what I say."
  José Antonio Zepeda Mendoza(alias "The Z'empeda"), UAM student, during the party offered on Saturday 4th April 1998 by Javier León (Salsa Master in México). it's such a deep phrase that we would need some of the NASA computers in order to decipher it.
• "It's a hard situation, but we thought the price, ... it's worth.
  USA Secretary of State Madelaine Albright talking about famine on Iraqis children who die as consequence of the USA boycott.
• "When you give food to the poor, they call you saint. When you ask yourself why poor have no food, they call you communist."
  Archbishop Helder Camara, Brazilian Liberation Theologian.
• "A million Arabs do not worth neither a Jew's nail."
  Rabí Yaacov Perrin (NY Daily News, Feb. 28th, 1994, p.6)
• "Women are very nasty, son."
  My mother.
• "Nothing in the catalogue of German crimes beats the massacre of gypsies... All the varieties of assassination were proven on them, more than any other group they were compelled to serve as Indian rabbits for "scientific" experiments, and in Ravensbrück, while some Germans were sterilized as individual punishment, only the gypsies were exposed to such treatment as group, one after the other, even the youngest girls.
  Why? Which were the crimes of those poor persons? If they were so culturally inferior, who was the blame for, if not the Germans, who had ruled them during centuries, without making nothing for them until the massacre began. The Germans: a shame race which only knew how to kill the defenseless"
  Germaine Tillion
• "A doctor came several days, probably a week, and throughout all the day, while he stayed in the camp, he sterilized gipsy children through X-rays, without using anesthesia. After the sterilization children left weeping, asking their mothers what he had made on them ..."
  Testimony of Gustawa Winkowska, in "Doctors of Infamy"
• "It's better a well known drunkard than an anonymous alcoholic"
  An anonymous drunkard.
• "We must say asshole to the asshole and master to the master"
  My father.
• "Why don't we give love and we fuck us where we love us?"
  Anonymous.
• "Loving without be loved, just as cleaning the ass without having shit"
  Taken from a wall in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
• "Each USA dollar invested in Philippines is a riveted nail on the independence coffin"
  Quezón
• "...Being a United States citizen is a shit, man; it's a nasty thing. I tell you that because I've lived there and I've suffered proofs of racism. No. I'm not independentist neither nationalist... I'm Puerto Rican and I love living in my little island".
  Ismael Miranda, Puerto Rican musician. "La Jornada", Friday 12th February of 1999, pag. 34

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Most recent revision: July 23th, 2003