QUOTES
DIVERSITY
Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing
is what is done with it and how far a community identifies with something that
symbolizes its favourite way of dreaming, living, dancing, playing or loving.
This is the positive side of the world: a constant intermingling that produces
new responses to new challenges. But because of forced globalization, there’s
a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the
ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups.
FREEDOM
We humans are the only ones that create borders for immigration, saying, “You
cannot go inside this line. This is the end of a country, and here begins another
one.” I’m afraid our time will be remembered as a sad period of human life in
which money was free, but people were not.
GLOBALIZATION
Globalization has considerably accelerated in recent years following the dizzying
expansion of communications and transport and the equally stupefying transnational
mergers of capital. We must not confuse globalization with “internationalism”
though. We know that the human condition is universal, that we share similar passions,
fears, needs and dreams, but this has nothing to do with the “rubbing out” of
national borders as a result of unrestricted capital movements. One thing is the
free movement of peoples, the other of money.
Reality
is not destiny; it’s a challenge. … We are not doomed to accept it as it is
"Reality
speaks a language of symbols. Each part is a metaphor of the whole."
