Spain Quotes - Page 11

• In Spain, however, people have found a way of cheating death. They summon it to appear in the afternoon in the bull ring, and they make it face a man. Death - a fighting bull with horns as weapons - is killed by a bullfighter. And the people are there watching death being cheated of its right.

  Maia Wojciechowska

  Death, Cheating, Fighting

  Maia Wojciechowska (2012). “Shadow of a Bull”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• In the constitution of Spain as proposed by the late Cortes, there was a principle entirely new to me:... that no person born after that day should ever acquire the rights of citizenship until he could read and write. It is impossible sufficiently to estimate the wisdom of this provision. Of all those which have been thought of for securing fidelity in the administration of the government, constant reliance to the principles of the constitution, and progressive amendments with the progressive advances of the human mind or changes in human affairs, it is the most effectual.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Writing, Rights, Government

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• Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with the passage of the years, he looms up as one of the great moral figures of our time, an artist of such integrity and a revolutionary of such purity as to overshadow those who achieved fame and power. His failure was his success. I know of no participant in Russia's revolution and Spain's agonies who more deserves the attention of our concerned youth.

  I. F. Stone

  Integrity, Artist, Russia

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• In England they need a king, in Spain they need a king, in France there is no more king. But they consider the president as if he was a king.

  Gaspar Noe

  Kings, President, Needs

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• As an actor, you can't judge. A great actress from Spain said, "We, the actors, are lawyers of the characters we play. We have to defend them, no matter what."

  Javier Bardem

  Character, Play, Judging

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 27, 2010.

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• If you want to go to Spain or you want to go to France or you want go to [any] southern European countries, [Lisbon] is a great place to [connect].

  David Neeleman

  Country, Southern, Want

  Source: skift.com

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• The Black Lives Matter movement, the various Occupy movements in Spain and the rest of Europe, in this country, and elsewhere serve as an example of what can be done, and how strong the voices for positive change and truly democratic progress can be.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Country, Strong, Europe

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Country, Winter, Hands

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• First of all, Greece won't go down. We're talking about a country that is capable of making change. Europe will not allow the destabilization of the 27-country euro zone. But if there were no action, then markets would start becoming jittery about other countries - and not only Spain and Portugal, but other countries in the European Union.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Talking, Europe

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• If we were the problem, it would be very convenient, kick Greece out, everything's fine. But what happened to Spain? What about Portugal? What about Italy? What about the whole of the Eurozone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice about what has to happen.

  George Papandreou

  Prejudice, Would Be, Needs

  "CNN's Amanpour" with Christiane Amanpour, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2012.

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• The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

  Carroll Quigley

  Failure, West, Influence

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• Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.

  Mariano Rajoy

  Economic, Difficulty, Situation

  "Rajoy Says Spain in ‘Extreme Difficulty’ as Bond Demand Drops" by Emma Ross-Thomas, www.bloomberg.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.

  Mariano Rajoy

  Risk, Debt, Sovereign

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• I would very much like to make Westerns. I love Westerns. I've worked on many Westerns in my youth, in Spain and here, and I love working on them.

  John Landis

  Youth

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• The (Catholic) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco's invasion of Spain to destroy the Spanish republic with a Muslim mercenary army in the thirties, on the side of Hitler.

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Army, Catholic

  "Tim Russert" (Talk-Show on CNBC), September 25, 2004.

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• In Mexico the gods ruled, the priests interpreted and interposed, and the people obeyed.In Spain, the priests ruled, the king interpreted and interposed, and the gods obeyed. A nuance in an ideological difference is a wide chasm.

  Richard Condon

  Kings, Differences, People

  1961 A Talent for Loving, bk.1, ch.6.

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• I make a star's salary when I do horror, because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.

  Robert Englund

  Stars, Salary, Germany

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can feel the same thing in football or soccer - that for the best teams in Spain and England, for instance, the public... they're not really going to cheer at all when they play against bad teams unless they do something spectacular. Even if they're winning by a few goals they'll probably just say, "nah." That's normal and they're not excited about it.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Soccer, Football, Cheer

  Source: theclassical.org

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• For example, it's often forgotten that [Albert ] Camus was extremely hostile [farouche] towards the [Francisco] Franco regime, and right to the end. He refused to travel to Spain, he left UNESCO because UNESCO accepted Franco's Spain and allowed it a discourse.

  Catherine Camus

  Example, Forgotten, Accepted

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• I think that the movement is weak in Zimbabwe, much weaker than it is in Italy for example, much weaker than it is in Spain, much weaker than it is even in Germany, although there the groups are small they are very vociferous and you get them speaking loudly and organising.

  Robert Mugabe

  Thinking, Zimbabwe, Groups

  Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org

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• The communists basically acted as the police force of the security system of the [Spain] Republic and were very much opposed to the anarchists, partially because [Joseph] Stalin still hoped at that time to have some kind of pact with Western countries against [Adolf] Hitler. That, of course, failed and Stalin withdrew the support to the Republic. They even withdrew the Spanish gold reserves.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Security Systems, Support

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• There's an interesting question, whether the anarchists had alternatives [in Spain]. If they did tend to support the government that had been destroyed, what were the alternatives? There was actually a proposal by Camillo Berneri, an Italian anarchist who was in Spain at the time, which is not a crazy notion in my opinion. He opposed participation in government and was against the formation of an army, meaning a major army to fight [Francisco] Franco.

  Noam Chomsky

  Crazy, Fighting, Army

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• [Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Should, Resorts

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Moving, Thinking, Wife

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• The flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea at Acre is not similar to the flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea in Spain.

  Rashi

  Sea, Acres, Flavour

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