"The homeostatic principle does not apply literally to the functioning of all complex living systems, in that in counteracting entropy they move toward growth and expansion."

10 quotes

🇦🇷Pope Francis

Religion

1936–2025

"A Christian cannot be an anti-Semite; we share the same roots. Rather, we are called to commit ourselves to ensure anti-Semitism is banned from the human community."

"Home belongs to the family. It’s not a place you chose, it’s more of an imposed space, arbitrary—a space whose rules you don’t entirely understand."

"At all times pseudoprofound aphorisms have been more popular than rigorous arguments."

", César. The Complete Poetry by César Vallejo . Ed. University of California Press. 2007."

"We are prepared to continue the dialogue, to search for ways to compose it together, to satisfy the interests of Great Britain, of the people of the Malvinas."

20 quotes

🇦🇷Julio César Strassera

Law

1933–2015

"There exist no provisions in our law that perfectly and precisely describe the form of criminality that shall be judged here."

1 quotes

🇦🇷Adolfo Bioy Casares

Literature

1914–1999

"Spanish-language page on Bioy Casares, including links to some passages from his works"

"He’s good inside, very good, strong physically. The one thing that surprised me the most was his quickness. And his defensive ability. He moves his head a lot, feints a lot. He’s not an easy man to hit."

14 quotes

🇦🇷Richard Walther Darré

Politics

1895–1953

"The concept of Blood and Soil gives us the moral right to take back as much land in the East as is necessary to establish a harmony between the body of our Volk and the geopolitical space."

3 quotes

🇦🇷Jorge Rafael Videla

Politics

1925–2013

"full military responsibility for the actions of the army in the war against terrorism."

"I'm not a prophet! I'm just one more hard-worker, no more than that . I'm a bean, just a screw of this machine called tango."

"Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters."

"To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations."

"Macri is worse than a dictator, because he came to power through voting."

"Journalism is disseminating information that someone does not want known; the rest is propaganda. Its function is to expose what is hidden, give testimony and, therefore, to disturb."

"Your coarse impudence in making me a proposition to employ my sword in a civil war is simply incomprehensible. You insolent scoundrel! Do you realize it has never been dipped in American blood?"

"Atomic war is inevitable. It will destroy half of humanity: it is going to destroy immense human riches. It is very possible. The atomic war is going to provoke a true inferno on Earth. But it will not impede Communism."

3 quotes

🇦🇷Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Politics

Kirchnerism

b. 1953

"I feel honored to belong to a generation that was a propitious victim of state terrorism."

9 quotes

🇦🇷Juan Román Riquelme

Politics

b. 1978

"They're gonna write that I'm a fag and the people is gonna believe it"

"Words perturb our powers of reason. The only safe words are our own."

"There is no secret here. I will give my all, as I always have. This way I prove to the people who hired me, and those who support me, how much it means."

"They are the "galácticos," the Real Madrid team and I am Valencia."

"I think God didn't put eyes on my face because he took his time to put eyes in my soul."

1 quotes

🇦🇷Óscar Vicente Ojea Quintana

Religion

"Life is the first right and without it no others can be given. We claim it for everyone at any age or in any situation that life finds itself in, and especially those who are weak, unprotected and defenseless"

"Translation of short story in The Cafe Irreal"

🇦🇷Marcella Althaus-Reid

Religion

1952–2009

1 quotes

🇦🇷Ernesto Che Guevara

Politics

1928–1967

"Silence is argument carried out by other means."

2 quotes

Notable Quotes

"Thus fought the heroes, tranquil their admirable hearts, violent their swords, resigned to kill and to die."

— Jorge Luis Borges, b. 1899View →

"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."

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"Years of solitude had taught him that, in one's memory, all days tend to be the same, but that there is not a day, not even in jail or in the hospital, which does not bring surprises, which is not a translucent network of minimal surprises."

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"In the work of Ts'ui Pên, all possible outcomes occur; each one is the point of departure for other forkings. Sometimes, the paths of this labyrinth converge: for example, you arrive at this house, but in one of the possible pasts you are my enemy, in another, my friend."

— Jorge Luis Borges, b. 1899View →

"In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing."

— Jorge Luis Borges, b. 1899View →

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