Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

I don't want to be the underdog. I don't want to be the poor guy, getting kicked around.

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

Power is dangerous for those who do not have it.

If you have maximum liberty then the strong can destroy the weak, and if you have absolute equality, you cannot have absolute liberty …. Total liberty can be dreadful, total equality can be equally frightful.

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

It is always the right of the mighty which prevails over the weak, and that is very primitive.

I both love inequality and am terrified of it.

Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.

Those with the least always lose the most in war.

In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty.

One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick.

Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

But who does hawk at eagles with a dove?