Bolivar Quotes & Sayings

I'm old, sick, tired, disillusioned, harassed, slandered, and unappreciated. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall into an abyss? Such a marvel is inconceivable and without precedent. There is no reasonable probability to bolster our hopes. — Simon Bolivar

It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation. — Simon Bolivar

An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction. — Simon Bolivar

If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey. — Simon Bolivar

Even before his eyes began to fail he had his secretaries read to him, and then he read no other way because of the annoyance that eyeglasses caused him. But his interest in what he read was decreasing at the same time, and as always he attributed this to a cause beyond his control.
"The fact is there are fewer and fewer good books," he would say. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth."
"Um, okay. So what is it?"
"Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering? ... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about. — John Green

The freedom of the New World is the hope of the Universe. — Simon Bolivar

In a way, Che Guevara's fate was far worse than Simon Bolivar's. Guevara's collapse was complete: his intentions were forgotten, but his style was taken up by boutique owners (one of the fanciest clothes stores in London is called Che Guevara). There is no faster way of destroying a man or mocking his ideas than making him fashionable. That Che succeeded in influencing dress-designers was part of his tragedy. — Paul Theroux

Bolivar cannot carry double — O. Henry

The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote ... and me! — Simon Bolivar

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right. — Simon Bolivar

Antonio Bolivar Salvador has an incredible story because he's one of the last Ocaina people left. The Ocaina people are - and the Ocaina language is basically about to disappear in this generation. You know, there are very few people that speak it. And he's one of them. — Ciro Guerra

The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny. — Simon Bolivar

In the unity of our nations rests the glorious future of our peoples. — Simon Bolivar

A people that loves freedom will in the end be free. — Simon Bolivar

Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves. — Simon Bolivar

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth? — Simon Bolivar

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering? — John Green

War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love. — Simon Bolivar

Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own. — Simon Bolivar

The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness — Simon Bolivar

We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development. — Hugo Chavez

I forgot to say - a merely curious detail - that in one of the first chapters of Sartor Resartus, when speaking about garments, Carlyle says that the simplest garment he knows of was used by the cavalry of Bolivar in the South American war. And here we have a description of the poncho as "a blanket with a hole in the middle," under which he imagines Bolivar's cavalry soldier, he imagines him - simplifying it a bit - "mother naked," as naked as when he came out of his mother's belly, covered by the poncho, with only his sword and his spear."25 — Jorge Luis Borges

Both the old and young Karamakates are portrayed by indigenous men, neither of them professional actors. The old shaman is played by Antonio Bolivar Salvador. — Tom Cole

To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second. — Simon Bolivar

He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless. And as I walked back to give Takumi's note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart. — John Green

It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny. — Simon Bolivar

The art of victory is learned in defeat. — Simon Bolivar

When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation. — Simon Bolivar

Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity. — Simon Bolivar

Morals and lights are our first necessities. — Simon Bolivar

Nations will march towards the apex of their greatness at the same pace as their education. Nations will soar if their education soars; they will regress if it regresses. Nations will fall and sink in darkness if education is corrupted or completely abandoned — Simon Bolivar

After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it. — John Green

Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death. — Simon Bolivar

God grants victory to perseverance. — Simon Bolivar

Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave. — Simon Bolivar

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed. — Simon Bolivar

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty. — Simon Bolivar

If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us. — Simon Bolivar

Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed. — Christopher Hitchens

He - that's Simon Bolivar - was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness. Damn it," he sighed. "'How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!'
"So what's the labyrinth?" I asked her.
"That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape - the world or the end of it? — John Green

Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own. — Simon Bolivar

Slavery is the offspring of darkness. — Simon Bolivar

Out of the most secure things, the most secure is to doubt. — Simon Bolivar

A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism. The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability. — Simon Bolivar

The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander von] Humboldt, since his work was more useful for our people than the work of all conquerors. — Simon Bolivar

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves. — Simon Bolivar

Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals. — Simon Bolivar

He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea. — Simon Bolivar

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people — Simon Bolivar