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.
I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.
Publicly, I've never talked about Argentina.
I am an austere president.
There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.
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.
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.
The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.
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!
My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values.
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.
If the inmates of Guantanamo want to make their nests in Uruguay, they can do it.
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.
When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.
Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.
The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.
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 automatisation of doing what the market tells us.
All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.
The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.
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.
