"Everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed."

"Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, anti-intellectualism does."

"Listen, I’m not an intellectual—Fascism has no need of that. What is wanted is the deed. Theory derives from action. What our corporate state demands from us is comprehension of the social forces—of history."

"Vivemos esse período como sonâmbulos, sem saber que íamos em direção ao desastre. Continuamos como sonâmbulos e estamos indo rumo ao desastre, em condições diferentes. O que é certo é o desastre ecológico, e o desastre dos fanatismos.

A menos que as pessoas tomem consciência da comunidade de destino dos humanos sobre a Terra, as pessoas se fecharão em suas identidades religiosas, étnicas etc. Vivemos um período obscuro da história, a única consolação é que esses períodos obscuros não são eternos."

"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life." 

"Ele é a figura ideal, inclusive ele tem a cara da elite brasileira, como todas as elites dos países que foram colonizados, foram criadas na base do previlégio.. não tem escândalo que derrube ele neste sentido.. porque a elite brasileira é racista. é escravista... é indiferente aos sofrimentos da população.. temos um presidente que é a cara da elite dominante...."

 "Corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters. That matters because we don’t run this country for corporations, we run it for people"

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”

"Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs."

"Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are. That there is some sort of truth to the whole thing, if you could just get to that point where you could see it, and live it, and feel it ... I think it is a long, long, way off. In the meantime there's suffering and darkness and confusion and absurdities, and it's people kind of going in circles. It's fantastic. It's like a strange carnival: it's a lot of fun, but it's a lot of pain."

"Is it easy to keep so quiet?
Everybody loves a quiet child
Underwater you're almost free
If you wanna be alone, come with me
Is it easy to live inside yourself?"

"Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd."

"If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be transmitted with anguish, with pain, and create an impact in people - upset them, shake them up, wake them out of their everyday routine."

“For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke a sense of humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war and if it is used well it can be a powerful ingredient in the antidote to war."

 "Lóri, disse Ulisses, e de repente pareceu grave embora falasse tranquilo, Lóri: uma das coisas que aprendi é que se deve viver apesar de. Apesar de, se deve comer. Apesar de, se deve amar. Apesar de, se deve morrer. Inclusive muitas vezes o próprio apesar de que nos empurra para a frente. Foi o apesar de que me deu uma angústia que insatisfeita foi a criadora de minha própria vida. Foi apesar de que parei na rua e fiquei olhando para você enquanto você esperava um táxi. E desde logo desejando você, esse teu corpo que nem sequer é bonito, mas é o corpo que eu quero. Mas quero inteira, com alma também. Por isso, não faz mal que você não venha, esperarei quanto tempo for preciso."

"A mais premente necessidade de um ser humano era tornar-se um humano."

"(...) Mas engana-se os que acreditam que a extinção do MinC e a redução do financiamento à cultura silenciarão vozes dissonantes, a crítica e o espírito libertário dos artistas. Na adversidade, a cultura brasileira se fortalecerá e resistirá à barbárie."

"It’s like writing, uh, your own obituary. I suppose to look back at it and say, you know, I cared enough to go to these places and write, in some way, something that would make someone else care as much about it as I did at the time. Part of it is you’re never going to get to where you’re going if you acknowledge fear. I think fear comes later, when it’s all over."

"No one survives alone."

"The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference."