Daniel Ortega quotes

“If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed-then I believe we are getting closer to God.”
-- Daniel Ortega

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“My idol was Sandino, and also Christ. I was brought up a Christian, but I regarded Christ as a rebel, a revolutionary.”
-- Daniel Ortega

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“Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.”
-- Daniel Ortega

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“Before consulting the hotheads who present various military options such as a military invasion: remember, President Reagan, Rambo only exists in the movies.”
-- Daniel Ortega

Source : Daniel Ortega (1987). “Discurso pronunciado por el Presidente de la República de Nicaragua y Coordinador de la Comisión Ejecutiva de la Dirección Nacional del Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, Comandante de la Revolución Daniel Ortega Saavedra, en la Cuadragésima Segund”

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“Legalisation doesn't make sense.”
-- Daniel Ortega

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“We are close to God when we are close to people. If we think of God as something in favor of the betterment of human beings, and if we act in a way that brings about that betterment-if we do not cling to riches, selfishness, or greed-then I believe we are getting closer to God.”
-- Daniel Ortega

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“Rambo only exists in the movies.”
-- Daniel Ortega

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“One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police -- because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison.”
-- Daniel Ortega

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“I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.”

“I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.133, Macmillan

“Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.”

“Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.”

Source : "The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage (Shapevine)". Book by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost, 2011.

“Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.”

“The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence--that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.”

“The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.”

“Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.”

“If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 57), 1937.

“Love is the selfishness of two persons.”