Daniel Salamanca Urey Quotes

As night is coming and my strength is exhausted, with no hope of anything better, I have only to display the meager harvest that I have accidentally picked.

In some grocery stores there is an expressive sign that says: Today I don't trust, tomorrow I do. I have some desire to compare that sign the promises of happiness that life gives us.

Our politics is a field from which morality is completely exiled.

Nothing is more ridiculous than a tyrant, whose fear is gradually losing itself.

From the ruins of a collapsing cause, the dust of recriminations always rises.

The political friend of today is the possible enemy of tomorrow. And vice versa. All those who work by a calculation of interest in politics must take that into account. Neither give your secrets to the friend nor give the adversary blows that cannot be forgotten.

From extreme old age, sanity is requested. It is like asking for strength from weakness.

The smallest evil that is inflicted on us seems to us a monstrous and horrible injustice. On the contrary, we are willing to consider the evils of others' light and to excuse and mitigate the injustices suffered by them.

We must defend the Chaco because it is ours, and it is the heritage that our elders left us; not for us, men ephemeral that we will die tomorrow, if not for our children, for our grandchildren, for the old Bolivia.

In established interests are the most powerful force of resistance to good.

We don't have to complain about human selfishness: everyone cares about us, and even our enemies would like to correct our defects.

What is not ephemeral in individual life, if life itself is fleeting like a dream.

It is inherent to the human condition to admire precisely what you do not understand.

Everyone is sensitive to pain: only the various kinds of misfortunes affect everyone differently and to varying degrees.

Every time we experience a misfortune or a setback, we need to find a culprit. We accuse the wind if there is no other.