Joxe Azurmendi
Joxe Azurmendi (born 19 March 1941) is a Basque writer, philosopher, essayist and poet.
Quotes[edit]
- Is not true that, in this world, before being paper citizens we are our mother's sons in the flesh. What is a human being in reality? To start from the beginning: What are peoples, cultures and what are then custom-houses, parliaments and states? Everybody carries a nursery rhyme in the soul, but nobody carries a passport or a custom-house in the soul.
- Demokratak eta biolentoak (1997), p. 48. ISBN 84-7917-744-6
- Indifferent culture loves praetorian order.
- Demokratak eta biolentoak (Donostia: Elkar, 1997), P.93. ISBN 84-7917-744-6
- The philosopher is not someone who has thought instead of us but rather someone who makes us think.
- Oraingo gazte eroak (Irun: Luma, 1998), p.35. ISBN 84-920333-2-0
- Tyranny, when they are strong, and democracies, when they are weak, can not tolerate criticism.
- Sokratesen Defentsa (Donostia: Jakin, 1999), p. 57. ISBN 84-95234-04-1
- The price of freedom is to decide moral and political issues.
- Interview in Deia (1 September 2012)
- The Basques are Argonauts with very fragile ships.
- Interview in Hegats 45 (2010), p. 197. ISSN 1130-2445
