Adolfo Perez Esquivel Quotes

“Don't stand back with your arms folded”

“For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.”

“Don't stand back with your arms folded step forward... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence. ”

“Servants are not allowed to ask questions. They are only supposed to follow orders. That attitude has to change. But in order for it to change, there has to be radical improvement in the quality of the intelligence produced by the Mexican government.”

“¡Los suspiros son aire y van al aire!¡Las lágrimas son agua y van al mar!Dime, mujer, cuando el amor se olvida¿sabes tú adónde va?”

“I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police.”

“...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.”

“I thought I had made this discovery: that there are unexpected, constant repetitions in our behavior. The right combination of circumstances had enabled me to observe them. One seldom has the chance to be a clandestine witness of several talks between the same people. But scenes are repeated in life, just as they are in the theatre.”

“The influence of the future on the past," said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.”

“I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness.”