Talk:Brazil

Looking for attribution:

"Brazil is a country of the future... and always will be."

The earliest source for this I can find is from 1947, but until I can find the actual text (hoping a library has it) I'll leave it here under Talk... Here is the full quote, with context:

"This was Brazil, a Brazil that few Brazilians knew, although it constitutes nearly two-thirds of their country. 'Brazil, Land of the Future,' said my companion startling me from my revery. He was pointing at Stefan Zweig's book [Stefan Zweig, Brazil: Land of the Future, NY: Viking Press, 1942] which lay on my lap. 'Yes,' said he, 'Brazil, Land of the Future and always will be!' As I looked at my friend I saw pictured in his..."

This is as much as Google Books deigns to show. The source is given as: The Land (or perhaps The Land and Land News), v. 6, p. 184. --Potosino (talk) 21:06, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Unsourced

• Le Brésil n’est pas un pays [sérieux]. (Brazil is not a [serious] country.)
  • Attributed to Charles de Gaulle, but probably said by Carlos Alves de Souza Filho, during the "lobster war".

• Brazil is the country of the future and always will be.
  • It has been attributed to Charles De Gaulle.

Removed quotes

Wikiquote is not a collection of information found in textbooks and guides. → WQ:NOTTEXTBOOK --MonstrumVenandi (talk) 00:07, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Tangential

• The persistence into the twentieth century of a specific institutional pattern inimical to growth in Mexico and Latin America is well illustrated by the fact that, just as in the nineteenth century, the pattern generated economic stagnation and political instability, civil wars and coups, as groups struggled for the benefits of power. Díaz finally lost power to revolutionary forces in 1910. The Mexican Revolution was followed by others in Bolivia in 1952, Cuba in 1959, and Nicaragua in 1979. Meanwhile, sustained civil wars raged in Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Peru. Expropriation or the threat of expropriation of assets continued apace, with mass agrarian reforms (or attempted reforms) in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, and Venezuela. Revolutions, expropriations, and political instability came along with military governments and various types of dictatorships. Though there was also a gradual drift toward greater political rights, it was only in the 1990s that most Latin American countries became democracies, and even then they remain mired in instability.
  • Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Poverty, and Prosperity (2012) --- might work in Latin America

• The draft law [whereby is "any alteration, edition, suppression, addition, or adaptation to the texts of the Holy Bible" in the State of Pernambuco prohibited] is obviously unconstitutional, as it would ask secular judges to determine what books in the Bible are part of the canon and what translation is correct or otherwise. However, the very fact that a leading state legislator has proposed it confirms that religious intolerance is a serious problem in Brazil.
  • Massimo Introvigne, "Brazil: Law Introduced in Pernambuco Would Forbid “Altering” the Bible", Bitter Winter (June 10, 2023) --- very recent

• Like many commodity dependent emerging markets, Brazil has imploded both economically and investment-wise over the past couple of years. I warned investors to bail out of the country back in September of 2012 as it was evident a huge bubble had formed. Things have become worse than I could have imagined and, given the state of things down south, it is hard to imagine things improving in 2016. The only question investors should be asking is, do the problems in Brazil and other emerging markets have the potential to cause problems here in 2016?
  • Bret Jensen, "Bye, Bye Brazil?" (22 December 2015), Seeking Alpha

• Violence has long been a fact of life in Brazil. Amnesty International reports that in 2004 there were 663 killings by officers in Sao Paulo state, and 983 in Rio de Janeiro State.
  • Steve Kingstone, "Brazilian's death was 'third-world error'" (25 July 2005), BBC News, United Kingdom: British Broadcasting Corporation

• Throughout my my career – which began in 1990 right when the press became unionized – the themes have generally been social-political issues: police brutality, state terrorism, corruption, political maneuvers…And not just in Brazil, the themes I tackle looking abroad include war, armed conflicts, and torture. I’ve also done a lot about the Brazilian military dictatorship.
  • Interview with Brasilwire (2017)

• Here in Brazil it's common for the police to act violently, especially against poor and black people.
  • Maria Luisa Mendonca, as quoted in "Brazilian's death was 'third-world error'" (25 July 2005), by Steve Kingstone, BBC News, United Kingdom: British Broadcasting Corporation

• Slavery will remain for a long time as the chief national characteristic of Brazil. It spread throughout our vast lonely lands a huge softness [of mores]; its contact was the first to shape the virgin nature of the country, and it was the one recorded there. It [slavery] peopled it [Brazil] like a living natural religion, with its myths, legends and spells.
  • Joaquim Nabuco, as quoted in "Did Brazil get over slavery?" (March 2015), by Jose Geraldo Gouvea, Quora -- unsourced

• One of the biggest threats to biodiversity is the continued loss of virgin forests. Every year, an area of forest corresponding to the size of Hungary disappears. However, the rate of deforestation has fallen by 40 per cent since the 1990s, according to the FAO. Deforestation has ceased in rich countries. In the United States and Europe forested areas are increasing. In China and India, too, forests are now growing, suggesting that rising populations and economies do not have to cause overexploitation. Were it not for deforestation in seven countries – Brazil, Paraguay, Angola, Congo, Tanzania, Indonesia and Myanmar – the world’s forests would have grown in the 2010s. That is not much of a comfort, given the unique natural values lost with those forests. But it shows that the notion that we are experiencing a relentless global deforestation does not hold.
  • Johan Norberg, The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World (2023) -- Deforestation
• We are also seeing a diffusion of power and competition at the nation state level. This competition comes not just from Russia and China, but also from emerging countries like Brazil, India, Indonesia, and the other ASEAN states. These states are also beginning to organize themselves into structures outside of and somewhat in competition.
  • Stephen J. Hadley, "America's Role In The World" (30 October 2014), Lowy Institute -- Geopolitics Ficaia (talk) 02:43, 19 July 2025 (UTC)