Joaquim Barbosa Quotes

“I have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much.”

“I think my legacy will be in what most people don't like about me: my style - the separation between judge and lawyers, judge and politics, the real independence of the judiciary from the executive, from the legislative, from money. I'm criticized in Brazil because of that. In the end, I hope to prevail.”

“Its very beautiful over there. I dont know where there is, but I believe its somewhere, and I hope its beautiful.”

“We fear what we don’t know, or whatever seems like a mystery to us.”

“The truth is the object of our lustBut the light is still so very dim…”

“May be able to die those who didn't know how to live”

“Wenn du weißt, behaupte, dass du es weißt. Und wenn du etwas nicht weißt, gib zu, dass du es nicht weißt. Das ist Wissen.”

“It is dangerous to become attached to a du Lac. He will break your heart, and you will not recover.”

“Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)”

“If the problem of the twentieth century was, in W. E. B. Du Bois’s famous words, “the problem of the color line,” then the problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of colorblindness, the refusal to acknowledge the causes and consequences of enduring racial stratification.”