“I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.” AmericaPoliticalCenturyConcentrationLatin20th CenturyInvolvementPolitical ScienceLatin America Author:Sebastian Arcelus
“Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke's Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino's of Plato in the fifteenth.” FirstsMaySeemsGenerationsCenturyEventsBuddhismIntellectualLatinProphecyPlatoEssaysTranslationsFuture GenerationPublicationZen Buddhism Author:D.T. Suzuki
“Latin America is very fond of the word "hope." We like to be called the "continent of hope." Candidates for deputy, senator, president, call themselves "candidates of hope." This hope is really something like a promise of heaven, an IOU whose payment is always being put off. It is put off until the next legislative campaign, until next year, until the next century.” YearsAmericaNextHeavenPresidentCenturyPromiseCampaignsCandidatesLatinContinentsSenatorsPaymentNext YearLatin AmericaDeputies Book:Memoirs Source: Memoirs
“The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.” StatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesCenturyLatinDictatorship20th CenturyLatin America Author:Carlos Fuentes
“At the time Latin America was composed only of colonies. We were up against the biggest army of the colonial world, the Napoleonic army. Haiti was ostracized for almost a century. Surviving in that international context is in itself a feat.” WorldAmericaCenturyArmyInternationalLatinSurvivingLatin AmericaColonyFeatsHaitiNapoleonic Author:Michele Montas
“One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand these eighteenth-century people, that it was that grounding in Greek and Latin that gave them their sense of the classic virtues: the classic ideals of honor, virtue, the good society, and their historic examples of what they could try to live up to.” PeopleTryingLife IsVirtueStudyCenturyExampleRegretHonorIdealsConvincedGreekClassicLatinHistoricGrounding Author:David McCullough
“The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.” AmericaChanceViolenceSeaCenturyParticularOvercomingMiseryLuxuryFormerIslandsLatinSurvivedInterventionLatin AmericaColonyDependencySubjugation Author:Noam Chomsky