Subcomandante Marcos (Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente) Quotes
Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable - this is Marcos.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!
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Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
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I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.
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When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.
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In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.
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All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.
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There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.
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America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.
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From up above, in a plane passing over, you’d just see one little light in all this dark, with no idea of the lives that were being lived within it, and in the house beside, and beside that one. So much happening in the world, night and day, hour by hour. It was no wonder we were meant to sleep, if only to check out of it for a little while.
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I'm an only child, and we're a close family.
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Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable - this is Marcos.
