Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

This notion that we're going to prop up foreign governments, that we're going to invade other countries for some kind of perceived benefit where we're going to install somebody who's going to be supportive of American interests or American corporate private interests needs to stop.

I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain.

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.

We express our indignation at the gross insensitivity of the so-called great or superpowers of the world toward small and defenseless nations and racial minorities of the world, and the cynical manner in which they are used or abused by these powers to further what they believe to be their interests or the interests of their allies

Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly.

I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.

If there is one thing that, as a director, you don't want to be a part of, it's a group. It's the same thing with music. I don't want to be a part of a scene. Just leave me alone. It's just my nature, and it's nothing against the people that are in that group, but I just like to be left alone.

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

I love living in Vermont and I love living in New York. Does my love for Vermont give us the right to rain bombs down on Tripoli? Of course not. There are exceptional qualities about the United States. But it doesn't give us the right to impose our will on other cultures when they often don't want it.

There are worse places to be than on your own.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.

Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

I'm used to living alone, and I like it that way. You become so selfish living alone...I'd make a terrible husband anyway.

At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone... I became a loner in my own mind... I decided I'd rather be alone.

Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

Give her not greatness. For great souls must stand Alone and lonely in this little world: Cleft rocks that show the great Creator's hand, Thither by earthquakes hurled.

Boxers are very isolated - or isolated within their own camps.

The West hasn't been naïve, it has been patronizing the South by imposing its own views on what should be done - ironically after having been so close and so supportive of dictators who were not respecting the people.