Simón Bolívar
View AuthorGood customs, and not force, are the pillars of laws; and the exercise of justice is the exercise of freedom.
Simón Bolívar
View AuthorPublic jobs belong to the State; they are not the heritage of individuals. None who lacks probity, skills, and merits is worthy of them.
Simón Bolívar
View AuthorLegislators certainly need a school of ethics.
Simón Bolívar
View AuthorFirst the native soil than nothing. Our life is nothing but the inheritance of our country.
Simón Bolívar
View AuthorAll the peoples of the world who have struggled for freedom have ultimately exterminated their tyrants.
Simón Bolívar
View AuthorA happy soldier acquires no right to command his homeland. He is not the arbiter of laws or government. He is the defender of its freedom.
Simón Bolívar
View AuthorI am always faithful to the liberal and just system proclaimed by my homeland.
Heinrich Böll
View AuthorAtheists bore me: they're always talking about God.
Heinrich Böll
View AuthorBeing an adult means forgetting how often we have felt disconsolate as children.
Heinrich Böll
View AuthorOne has to go very far, to know how far one can go.
Heinrich Böll
View AuthorPerhaps I was realizing what the working world meant: doing things without having the desire to do them.
Heinrich Böll
View AuthorCourtesy is actually the most effective form of contempt.