Ernesto Cardenal Quotes

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While classes exist no one is free
We are not born to be slaves
or to be masters.
We are born to be brothers and sisters.
What is capitalism but buying and selling of people?

Ernesto Cardenal
God also loves the man who is dictator of Nigaragua, but he does not love him as the dictator of Nigaragua.
Of Anastasio Somoza

Ernesto Cardenal
When you get the nomination, the prize, the promotion,
think of the ones who died.
When you are at the reception, delegation, commission,
think of the ones who died.
When you have won the election and the crowd
congratulates you,
think of the ones who died.

Ernesto Cardenal
And that was Big Bang. The Great Explosion. The universe subjected to relations of uncertainty, its radius of curvature undefined, its geometry imprecise with the uncertainty principle of Quantum Mechanics.

Ernesto Cardenal
The second law of thermodynamics!: energy is indestructible in quantity but continually changes in form. And it always runs down like water.

Ernesto Cardenal
But a star a little heavier than a neutron star is a black hole. The forces of a black hole. Like a cosmic vacuum cleaner. Where gravitation is so great, the curvature so great, that light is swallowed up.

Ernesto Cardenal
In the beginning there was nothing neither space nor time. The entire universe concentrated in the space of the nucleus of an atom, and before that even less, much less than a proton, and even less still, an infinitely dense mathematical point.

Ernesto Cardenal
Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.

Ernesto Cardenal
God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love.

Ernesto Cardenal