Leopoldo Quotes & Sayings

The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression. — Leopoldo Lopez

There is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything. — Gertrude Atherton

As a species, tragedy dwells within us all. We push it to the back of our thoughts, but it is never so far gone that it cannot return, crashing and writhing into our souls: a rogue wave overturning a boat on a calm day. Tragedy is never more than a breath away. We hide from its certainty and go about our lives as though time can be wasted. Somewhere deep inside ourselves we know that we tell ourselves lies. We know that someday everything we love will be gone. — Logan Kain

A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome. — Leopoldo Lopez

Our arguments - and those of hundreds more Venezuelans suffering the same injustice - are clear and forceful: political disqualification violates laws in Venezuela and throughout the continent. — Leopoldo Lopez

The beauty of having nothing to lose, is you learn the beauty of having everything to gain.
This is where hope lives.
Hope can't be taken.
Hope can't be lost.
Hope can't be broken.
When we are boiled down to what we are as people. We are not love, because we hope to love, we are not money or who we hold, because we hope to have and to hold. We are not religion or God, because we enter into belief in the hope we get something back for ourselves. We are not a soul.
We are hope. — Craig Stone

Don't you ever get scared?" I ask.
"Of what?" She says.
"Of not being good enough."
"You mean at writing?" L'il asks.
I nod. "What if I'm the only one who thinks I can do it and no one else does? What if I'm fooling myself-"
"Oh, Carrie." She smiles. "Don't you know that every writer feels that way? Fear is part of the job. — Candace Bushnell

When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment. — Marianne Moore

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. — Aleatha Romig

To Learn is to create. Learning- whether it is programming, mathematics, art, music, poetry, biology, or chemistry- is all about breaking down walls and freeing the one thing that kept us alive: knowledge.

Knowledge expands freedom in all its forms. Knowledge breaks down walls. It liberates the oppressed. We are committed to knowledge. Knowledge as a hammer against classism, against sexism, against racism, against gender discrimination, against slavery, against bigotry, against war, against hatred. If there is darkness in the world, we will light it up. — Leopoldo Gout

We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans. — Leopoldo Lopez

No one wants to pay for a look at another person's angst. — Dan Simmons

You would think that anyone on a major label would be doing something, but when you speak of major label that means something to maybe a big pop star that might be getting some sort of benefit from the major. But we still don't get anything. — Lester Bowie

We've got ego's like hairdos. — Ani DiFranco

Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception. — Leopoldo Lopez

All she wants is a miracle, because anything else is hopeless. — Margaret Atwood

In a crisis, give help first and then advice. — Aesop

Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?' — Sam Kinison

He who would prove all life, leaves it empty. To know the way of everything is to be left with the geometry of things and with the substance of nothing. To reduce the world to an equation is to leave it without head or feet. — Leopoldo Alas

The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution. — Leopoldo Lopez