Juan Villoro quotes

  • Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

  • What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order.

  • It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.

  • As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity.

  • Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.

  • Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

  • The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.

  • A friend to honesty and a foe to crime

  • Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.

  • Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.