Quotes & Sayings About Marcos

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much. — Imelda Marcos

My wife calls me the Imelda Marcos of books. As soon as a book enters our home it is guaranteed a permanent place in our lives. Because I have never been able to part with even one, they have gradually accumulated like sediment. — Michael Moritz

But I'll tell you more about that later ... or maybe I won't, because some wounds just don't heal even if you talk them out. On the contrary, the more you dress them up in words, the more they bleed. — Subcomandante Marcos

He talked a lot about girls, too. His brother, Sam Houston Johnson, recalls that more than once, when he visited his brother at San Marcos, Lyndon, coming back into the room naked after a shower, would take his penis in his hand, and say: "Well, I've gotta take ol' Jumbo here and give him some exercise. I wonder who I'll fuck tonight. — Robert A. Caro

In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood. — Subcomandante Marcos

They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance ... But the truth will prevail. — Imelda Marcos

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become. — Imelda Marcos

It is worth looking closer and remembering something Marcos Alvito told me: Statistics are like a bikini. They show so much, but they hide the most important parts. — Dave Zirin

The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things. — Imelda Marcos

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen. — Imelda Marcos

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it. — Ferdinand Marcos

[Marco Rubio] you're a lousy businessman. — Donald Trump

I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung. — Ferdinand Marcos

I give you my name, my earthly possessions, and my eternal love. But of all the things I have, the thing I want most to give you are my eyes, these eyes that see how magnificently beautiful you are. — Michelle Marcos

The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions. — Ferdinand Marcos

We practically own everything in the Philippines. — Imelda Marcos

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them. — Ferdinand Marcos

My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people. — Imelda Marcos

History isn't through with me yet. — Ferdinand Marcos

You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring. — Alma Guillermoprieto

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back. — Imelda Marcos

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. — Imelda Marcos

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness. — Ferdinand Marcos

It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, ... or extravagance. Beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is God and love made real. And the ultimate reach in this world is beauty. — Imelda Marcos

No matter how strong and dedicated a leader may be, he must find root and strength amongst the people. He alone cannot save a nation. He may guide, he may set the tone, he may dedicate himself and risk his life, but only the people may save themselves. — Ferdinand Marcos

The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world. Take care and do not forget ideas are also weapons. — Subcomandante Marcos

In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents. — Subcomandante Marcos

The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect. — Ferdinand Marcos

I do not have 3,000 pairs of shoes, I have 1,060. — Imelda Marcos

I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them. — Ferdinand Marcos

Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life. — Imelda Marcos

The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival. — Imelda Marcos

God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven. — Imelda Marcos

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election. — Imelda Marcos

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. — Imelda Marcos

Don Quixote is the best book out there on political theory, followed by Hamlet and Macbeth. There is no better way to understand the tragedy and the comedy of the Mexican political system than Hamlet, Macbeth and Don Quixote. They're much better than any column of political analysis. — Subcomandante Marcos Laura Castellanos

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty. — Imelda Marcos

You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda. — Imelda Marcos

More than life, I value vindication. When you are at peace with the truth and you know that you are on the side of the right and God is on your side, you are not afraid of anything, including jail. — Imelda Marcos

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty. — Imelda Marcos

You had to see him [Marco Rubio] backstage. He was putting on make up with a trowel. — Donald Trump

Question the images. Take them by the hand and don't let the sweet distancing they offer you vanquish you; do away with the distance's comfort or the soft indifference you derive from concentrating on the quality of the framing, the use of light and shadows, the successful composition. Force these images to bring you to the Mexican Southeast, to history, to the struggle, to this taking sides, to choose a faction. — Subcomandante Marcos

I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness. — Imelda Marcos

Every time the diaphragm winks, the camera repeats the question that now travels through cyberspace and invades, as a modern virus, the memories of machines, men and women. The question that history sets forth. The question which forces us to define ourselves and whose answer makes us human: On which side are you? — Subcomandante Marcos

Shadows gripped him at the thought. If Thomas changed his mind once Marcos got his grief and emotional shit under control, if he tried to withdraw again ... Marcus knew he didn't have the energy left to fight him. After all the harrowing years when he never let himself entertain the notion, even in his darkest moment, Marcus now knew he would have a compelling reason to take his own life. — Joey W. Hill

The prophecy is here: When the storm calms, when rain and fire again leave the country in peace, the world will no longer be the world, but something better. — Subcomandante Marcos

The photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and does not democratize the image, that is to say, the photographer selects the pictures, a privilege which ought to be granted to the person being photographed. — Subcomandante Marcos

The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country. — Imelda Marcos

Readers are distrustful and, although they accept the rules of the proposed game upon entry, they remain on the lookout for the slightest contradiction and often allow their own prejudices to lead them astray. When they have an openly autobiographical text in their hands, they lie in wait for possible falsehoods. When it's a novel or a story, they try to uncover the autobiographical subtext. — Marcos Giralt Torrente

We came to know each other in war, and in war we continue. — Subcomandante Marcos

I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet — Subcomandante Marcos

What's wrong with shoes? I collected them because it was like a symbol of thanksgiving and love? — Imelda Marcos

For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers. — Subcomandante Marcos

We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet. — Subcomandante Marcos

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical. — Imelda Marcos

Little boys have amazing minds. — Ferdinand Marcos

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty. — Imelda Marcos

Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them. — Ferdinand Marcos

In the end, the women can be very rebellious, and very capable and all of that, but if she depends on a man economically, she has few possibilities. — Subcomandante Marcos

IN THE EARLY MORNING of December 30, 1965, a few hundred Filipinos milled around the suburban residence of President-elect Ferdinand E. Marcos. They came in all manner of transport, from distant and nearby provinces, attracted by publicity on the celebrated beauty of the First Lady-to-be, Imelda Romualdez Marcos. — Carmen Navarro Pedrosa

Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without — Subcomandante Marcos

I would have to ask the public to choose between a culture of hate or a culture of love. I am sure our poor will pick the latter. With the Marcos assets, we could regain this value of sharing love with one another. — Imelda Marcos

I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated. — Ferdinand Marcos

We argue that the role of teachers is becoming less that of a knowledge transmitter, and closer to that of an "animator of collective intelligence" who provides analytical tools (the proverbial "fishing rod") rather than simply giving away raw information ("fish"). — Marcos C. Lima

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars. — Imelda Marcos

We were born between blood and gunpowder; and between blood and gunpowder we were raised. Every so often the powerful from other lands came to rob us of tomorrow. For this reason it was written in a war song that unites us: "If a foreigner with his step ever dares to profane your land, think, Oh beloved motherland, that heaven gave you a soldier in each son." For this reason we fought. With flags and different languages the foreigner came to conquer us. He came and he went. — Subcomandante Marcos

I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act. — Imelda Marcos

We think, fundamentally, that the future story of Latin America, not only of Mexico but for all of Latin America, will be constructed from the bottom - that the rest of what's happening, in any case, are steps. — Subcomandante Marcos

The foundation upon which our nation stands is much richer and firmer than the sympathies that may occasionally divide us. And we never know this more truly than in Christmas time. In good times or in bad, under clear skies or under the shadow of uncertainty, the Christmas message is the imperishable one of joy, hope and brotherhood. — Ferdinand Marcos

The photographer discovers himself/herself being photographed and we can guess he is uncomfortable. Unsuccessfully he/she tries to recompose his posture and to look like a photographer taking photos. But no, he is and continues to be a spectator. The momentous fact of being photographed leads him to becoming an actor. And, as always, actors must assume a role, which is only an elegant way of avoiding to say they must choose sides, choose a faction, take an option. — Subcomandante Marcos

Marco [Rubio] now is attached to that establishment. I don't see his future, not in this particular cycle. — Rush Limbaugh

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder? — Ferdinand Marcos

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows. — Imelda Marcos

The aspiration of all writers should be to avoid leaving fissures in their work, to make sure that everything is properly secured so readers won't find a single toehold for their suspicions. — Marcos Giralt Torrente

We don't want to impose our solutions by force, we want to create a democratic space. We don't see armed struggle in the classic sense of previous guerrilla wars, that is as the only way and the only all-powerful truth around which everything is organized. In a war, the decisive thing is not the military confrontation but the politics at stake in the confrontation. We didn't go to war to kill or be killed. We went to war in order to be heard. — Subcomandante Marcos

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life. — Imelda Marcos

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers. — Imelda Marcos

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers. — Imelda Marcos

In addition to being extremely expensive, and we have to put up with the stupidities that the candidates repeat, it's really being decided elsewhere who will sit in the presidential seat. — Subcomandante Marcos

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world. — Imelda Marcos

The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm. — Stephen Jay Gould

My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble. — Imelda Marcos

I didn't cry when they buried my father - I wouldn't let myself. I didn't cry when they buried my sister. On Thursday night, with my family asleep upstairs, my eyes filled as Agassi and Marcos Baghdatis played out the fifth set of their moving second-round match. — Greg Garber

We are an army of dreamers, and that's why we're invincible. — Subcomandante Marcos

The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this. — Imelda Marcos

It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass. — Imelda Marcos

Once a champion, always a champion. — Ferdinand Marcos

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution. — Subcomandante Marcos

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes. — Imelda Marcos

Descending south into St. Augustine's Historic District along A1A, visitors are immediately confronted by an edifice which serves as a stark reminder that the city was originally founded as a military outpost, deep in hostile territory. Jutting up like a molar from the defensive teeth of the Ancient City is the forbidding fortress of Castillo de San Marcos, a coquina fortification which has served many roles it its nearly three hundred fifty year history. — James Caskey

Lady Ponsonby was right. The forbidden fruit isn't shaped like an apple. It's shaped like a banana. — Michelle Marcos

Curious People
Soledad, five, daughter of Juanita Fernandez: "Why don't dogs eat dessert?"
Vera, six, daughter of Elsa Villagra: "Where does night sleep? Does night sleep here under the bed?"
Luis, seven, son of Francisca Bermudez: "Will God be angry if I don't believe in him? I don't know how to tell him."
Marcos, nine, son of Silvia Awad: "If God made himself, how did he make his back?"
Carlitos, forty, son of Maria Scaglione: "Mama, how old was I when you weaned me? My psychiatrist wants to know. — Eduardo Galeano

Perception is real, truth is not. I'm not fighting for money and possessions. I'm fighting for something more precious. I pray that as we enter the cyber age
the Age of Transparency
the facts and the truth will out. — Imelda Marcos

In spite of all the red flags and signs that Marc had more baggage than Imelda Marcos taking shoes on vacation, I continued to date him. — Cierra Rantoul

After all these years, he couldn't believe he'd recognized her so instantly. He prayed that she wouldn't recognize him, but as her eyes widened, he knew she had.
"Marcos?" she breathed.
And his worst nightmare came true. His cover was blown. — Elizabeth Heiter

In our dreams we have seen another world, an honest world, a world decidedly more fair than the one in which we now live. We saw that in this world there was no need for armies; peace, justice and liberty were so common that no one talked about them as far-off concepts, but as things such as bread, birds, air, water, like book and voice. — Subcomandante Marcos

It is not a choice of life, it is a choice of death. If this is life, I'd rather die. — Ferdinand Marcos

Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them. — Ferdinand Marcos

In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force. — Subcomandante Marcos

Our opponent [Cory Aquino] does not put on any make up. She does not have her fingernails manicured. You know gays. They are for beauty. Filipinos who like beauty, love and God are for Marcos. — Imelda Marcos