Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo Quotes
Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo was a Spanish diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist.
(1886 - 1978)
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Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then it develops according to its inner logic, passes its climax, seeks its cadence, ends, and restores silence, leisure again. Action and leisure are thus interdependent; echoing and recalling each other, so that action enlivens leisure with its memories and anticipations, and leisure expands and raises action beyond its mere immediate self and gives it a permanent meaning.
[Action]
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Circumstances are the seeds of literature.
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First, the sweetheart of the nation, then her aunt, woman governs American because America is a land where boys refuse to grow up.
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He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does no block the exercise of that power.
[Freedom]
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Literature is an art, and the essence of all art is mood.
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My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust.
[Self Knowledge]
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No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.
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Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.
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The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.
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The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time -- music and poetry -- and not the arts of space -- sculpture and painting.
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The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . . reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music.
[Music]
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The criminal excesses of unlimited capitalistic liberty had soon been checked thanks to the unlimited liberty of the press.
[Journalism]
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The ideal holiday for the truly active man is one doing nothing in beautiful surroundings . . . and the ideal exercise for this best form of leisure is the old, natural, spontaneous movement of the body -- the walk.
[Action]
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The world has reached such a degree of interdependence... that international cooperation has become essential... the only self-supporting region of the world is the whole world... Only one opinion and only one market cover the face of the earth.
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We do not distrust each other because we are armed; we are armed because we distrust each other.
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