Jorge Majfud Quotes

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The relationship that in our time unites us with Money is completely abstract. That's where our society resembles to the one in the Middle Ages: we fear a symbolic and invisible entity, like men feared God thousands of years ago. The stock exchange changes without our participation. Between the stock and us there's a theology of money called economy that, in general, is in charge of rationally explaining something that doesn't have more reason than it's symbolic power.

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Terrorism is not justified with anything, but it's explained with everything.

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It wasn't businessmen who developed new technology and science but amateur inventors or salaried professors instead; from the foundation of this country to the invention of the Internet, continuing with Einstein and finally, the arrival of the first man on the moon. Not to mention, the basis of the sciences—which were shaped by those horrible and uncivilized Arabs centuries before—from the numbers that we use to Algebra to algorithms and many other sciences and philosophies that are part of Western civilization today, continuing with the Europeans in the 17th century. None of these men were businessmen, of course.

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There's no better strategy against a true rumor than inventing another fake one to claims to confirm it.

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For centuries men looked for comfort to their deepest anguish, but all answers seemed small before death. Until someone, it's unknown who, discovered the truth. And since they saw it served all as an answer to the fears of the first man, they defended it with their blood and with the blood of others, first and then with the lie.

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We inhabit the cities of the dead and their ideas inhabit us every day.

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We call reality
to madness that remains
and madness to reality that vanishes

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The fear of the other makes us resemble the other who fears us.

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That blind attitude of the Society of Knowledge is similar in all to the proud consideration that "our language is better because it's understood."
Just that with a completely tragic intensity, that could be translated like this: "our dead are true because they hurt."

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While universities make robots that look more like human beings every time, not only because of their proven intelligence but now also because of their abilities to express and receive emotions, the consumerist habits are making us every time more similar to robots.

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Somebody told me once that I couldn't talk about religion because I wasn't a religious man. I kept thinking for a moment, because he was right about something: I am a religious spirit, but not a religious man because my mind doesn't know about safety. Obviously, he was wrong about the rest. Sir – I wanted to answer, not without shyness –, if catholic priests have given marital advice since always and now they even give a sexual conduct class, why can't an atheist teach theology?"

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The worst thing that can happen to a democracy is that its citizens leave the politics in the hands of politicians.

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It's not by chance that most of the basketball players are tall men, nor that most of the transvestite are homosexuals. It's also not a coincidence that most of those who hold the power are ambitious people. In other words, it's not a coincidence that the world is ruled by people who shouldn't rule.

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When we talk about drugs, we blame the producers, not the consumers. But when we talk about weapons, we blame the consumers, no the producers. The reason consists, as I understand, in the place of power. In the case of drugs, the products are the others, not us; in the case of weapons, the consumers are the others; we limit ourselves to their production.

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Don't think we're indifferent. What happens is that normally we're busy with something that is not the others.

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A society is not defined as developed by the wealth it has but by the poverty it doesn't have.

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