Jose Mujica Quotes

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.

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

A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn’t go into politics.

No addiction is good.

We can’t avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.

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

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

My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my – that actually forged my way of thinking and my values.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

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.

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 give myself the luxury of saying what I want.

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

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

If the inmates of Guantanamo want to make their nests in Uruguay, they can do it.

The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.

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

The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.

Publicly, I’ve never talked about Argentina.

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