Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire

Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others

The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.