Juan Montalvo quotes

“There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.”
-- Juan Montalvo

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“Old age is an island surrounded by death.”
-- Juan Montalvo

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“Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.”

“Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.”

“No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.”

Source : "In Rare, Blunt Speech, Saudi King Criticizes Syria Vetoes" by Rick Gladstone, www.nytimes.com. February 10, 2012.

“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”

“Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?”

“Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.”

“Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.”

Source : Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

“The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.”

“Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.”

“Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them day after day.”