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Top 20 Jose Mujica Quotes (2025 Update)

Jose Mujica Quote: “In life you can fall down 1000 times but the point is to have the willingness to stand up and to start again.”

1. “In life you can fall down 1000 times but the point is to have the willingness to stand up and to start again.”

— Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica Quote: “My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.”

2. “My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.”

— Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica Quote: “Some people love money and get into politics. If they love money so much, they should get into commerce, industry, or do whatever they want – it’s no sin. But politics is for serving the people.”

3. “Some people love money and get into politics. If they love money so much, they should get into commerce, industry, or do whatever they want – it’s no sin. But politics is for serving the people.”

— Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica Quote: “We can almost recycle everything now. If we lived within our means, by being prudent, the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.”

4. “We can almost recycle everything now. If we lived within our means, by being prudent, the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.”

— Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica Quote: “I’m not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live. My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I’m the son of my history. There have been years when I would have been happy just to have a mattress.”

5. “I’m not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live. My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I’m the son of my history. There have been years when I would have been happy just to have a mattress.”

— Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica Quote: “Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don’t have anything but solitude.”

6. “Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don’t have anything but solitude.”

— Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica Quote: “We have sacrificed the old immaterial gods, and now we are occupying the temple of the Market-God. He organizes our economy, our politics, our habits, our lives, and even provides us with rates and credit cards and gives us the appearance of happiness.”

7. “We have sacrificed the old immaterial gods, and now we are occupying the temple of the Market-God. He organizes our economy, our politics, our habits, our lives, and even provides us with rates and credit cards and gives us the appearance of happiness.”

— Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica Quote: “Worse that drugs is drug trafficking. Much worse. Drugs are a disease, and I don’t think that there are good drugs or that marijuana is good. Nor cigarettes. No addiction is good. I include alcohol. The only good addiction is love. Forget everything else.”

8. “Worse that drugs is drug trafficking. Much worse. Drugs are a disease, and I don’t think that there are good drugs or that marijuana is good. Nor cigarettes. No addiction is good. I include alcohol. The only good addiction is love. Forget everything else.”

— Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica Quote: “I have a way of life that I don’t change just because I am a president. I earn more than I need, even if it’s not enough for others. For me, it is no sacrifice, it’s a duty.”

9. “I have a way of life that I don’t change just because I am a president. I earn more than I need, even if it’s not enough for others. For me, it is no sacrifice, it’s a duty.”

— Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica Quote: “Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.”

10. “Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.”

— Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica Quote: “No country can solve climate change alone, we have to take global measures.”

11. “No country can solve climate change alone, we have to take global measures.”

— Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica Quote: “But we think as people and countries, not as a species.”

12. “But we think as people and countries, not as a species.”

— Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica Quote: “It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration, and we suffer from poverty, and we are auto-marginalized.”

13. “It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration, and we suffer from poverty, and we are auto-marginalized.”

— Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica Quote: “The way the banks behave is frankly unbearable. I didn’t rob for me. I expropriated resources for a struggle. If I had robbed for myself that would be different.”

14. “The way the banks behave is frankly unbearable. I didn’t rob for me. I expropriated resources for a struggle. If I had robbed for myself that would be different.”

— Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica Quote: “I never killed anyone because it wasn’t necessary. I could have killed.”

15. “I never killed anyone because it wasn’t necessary. I could have killed.”

— Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica Quote: “Uruguay is a country which has grown from immigration, people from all over. That is our origin.”

16. “Uruguay is a country which has grown from immigration, people from all over. That is our origin.”

— Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica Quote: “I think the ideal way of living is to live like the vast majority of people whom we attempt to serve and represent.”

17. “I think the ideal way of living is to live like the vast majority of people whom we attempt to serve and represent.”

— Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica Quote: “I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes.”

18. “I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes.”

— Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica Quote: “What was my great sin? To have revealed the private property of the bank – well if this is being a criminal, then maybe I’m a great criminal.”

19. “What was my great sin? To have revealed the private property of the bank – well if this is being a criminal, then maybe I’m a great criminal.”

— Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica Quote: “What’s sad is that an 80-year-old grandpa has to be the open-minded one. Old people aren’t old because of their age, but because of what’s in their heads. They are horrified at this, but they aren’t horrified at what’s happening in the streets?”

20. “What’s sad is that an 80-year-old grandpa has to be the open-minded one. Old people aren’t old because of their age, but because of what’s in their heads. They are horrified at this, but they aren’t horrified at what’s happening in the streets?”

— Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica Quote: “The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live.”

21. “The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live.”

— Jose Mujica

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