Politics

“La literatura refleja las ideas vigentes en una sociedad, y es expresión de ella.”

“Le problème qui va se poser à nous dans un proche avenir consistera à substituer à des limitations de souveraineté qui nous étaient imposées par la force des limitations de souveraineté librement consenties.”

“I needed to find capital resources for large-scale experiments and for time to negotiate with the British and Palestinian authorities.”

“How could we expect otherwise? World organization is still a new adventure in human history.”

“Anything and everything involving ideas, including theology, is intimately bound up with the existing social situation in at least an unconscious way.”

“The dream of a unified and free Burma has always haunted me.”

“I am a poet and not a politician.”

“You don’t dance to the tune of the rulers.”

“لست مع الثورات”

“I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.”

“其實我唱歌是為全體中國人而唱的，和台灣、大陸都沒有關係。”

“It is liberty which is ancient, and despotism which is modern.”

“I believe in the sincerity of the Chinese leadership about peaceful coexistence between nations with different political systems.”

“If there is no-one I can believe who can fix the problems of the country, I may try to run for president.”

“The movement now is simply to win Ireland for the Irish—Ireland for the Irish under any form.”

“Only if we end this bad system will the future of Burma’s people, including my daughter’s, be bright.”

“Dantonian audacity of policy was, as sometimes happens, perhaps the best guarantee of safety.”

“The struggle will continue.”

“Nós queremos falar uma linguagem para ser ouvida, uma linguagem comprometida com a ação.”

“the true state of my beloved country and the true causes of our poverty”