Jose Mujica

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.

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

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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.

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

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

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The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.

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Quotes by Jose Mujica