Evita Peron Quotes

• I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

  Evita Peron

  Inspiring, Women, Rights

  98 Copy quote

• I want nothing for myself... My glory is and always will be... the banner of my people, and even if I leave shreds of my life on the wayside I know that you will gather them up in my name and carry them like a flag to victory.

  Evita Peron

  Names, People, Patriotism

  109 Copy quote

• I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron.

  Evita Peron

  Heart, People, Soul

  120 Copy quote

• Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

  Evita Peron

  Mirrors, Shadow, Sun

  114 Copy quote

• You must want! You have the right to ask! You must desire.

  Evita Peron

  Desire, Want, Asks

  84 Copy quote

• My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

  Evita Peron

  Life Is, Forgotten, Biggest Fear

  71 Copy quote

• I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange thing is that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there were people who were rich.

  Evita Peron

  Pain, People, World

  86 Copy quote

• Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.

  Evita Peron

  Fall, Answers, Today

  80 Copy quote

• If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing.

  Evita Peron

  Fall, Looks, Crash

  64 Copy quote

• Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.

  Evita Peron

  Inspirational, Accomplish, Fanaticism

  69 Copy quote

• Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

  Evita Peron

  Men, Generosity, Doe

  80 Copy quote

• Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.

  Evita Peron

  Lying, Reconstruction, Workers

  48 Copy quote

• When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

  Evita Peron

  Thinking, Ideas, History

  56 Copy quote

• Time is my greatest enemy.

  Evita Peron

  History, Enemy, World History

  47 Copy quote

• I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.

  Evita Peron

  Sparrows, Flocks

  36 Copy quote

• Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

  Evita Peron

  Charity, Levels, Rich

  46 Copy quote

• The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.

  Evita Peron

  Rights, Government, Hands

  44 Copy quote

• I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron and my people.

  Evita Peron

  Simple, People

  33 Copy quote

• Put down me for a lifetime of success: give me credit, I'll find ways of paying.

  Evita Peron

  Giving, Way, Credit

  30 Copy quote

• I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .

  Evita Peron

  Eight, Government, Hands

  43 Copy quote

• To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.

  Evita Peron

  Take Time, Convince, Oneself

  41 Copy quote

• Our President has declared that the only privileged person in our country are the children.

  Evita Peron

  Country, Children, President

  40 Copy quote

• Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

  Evita Peron

  Book, History, Use

  25 Copy quote

• Sometimes I have wished my insults were slaps or lashes; I've wanted to hit people in the face and make them see, if only for a day, what I see each day I help people.

  Evita Peron

  People, Each Day, Faces

  35 Copy quote

• If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

  Evita Peron

  Argentina, Each Day, Turns

  29 Copy quote

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