Basques Quotes

• I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Feel Good, Political, May

  "Vicente del Bosque: Dejar a un lado las tensiones regionales ha unido a España", por Jimmy Burns, www.theguardian.com. 7 de septiembre de 2012.

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• Una vida sin amigos es una muerte sin compañía. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.) - PROVERBIO VASCO

  Craig Johnson

  Mean, Company, Without Friends

  Craig Johnson (2007). "Muerte sin compañía: A Walt Longmire Mystery", p.9, Penguin

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• El euskera es una de las lenguas más alarmantes del mundo. Dicen que sólo unos pocos extranjeros adultos han conseguido aprenderlo. El Diablo lo intentó una vez y sólo dominó tres palabras: blasfemias, supongo.

  Jan Morris

  Devil, Adults, Three

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• The force of universalism is in you Basques, not in the Spanish state.

  Slavoj Žižek

  States, Force, Universalism

  ARGIA Interview, June 27, 2010.

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• There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Government, Quality, Earth

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• A pesar de amordazar a la prensa, encarcelar a miles de personas y practicar la tortura, el secuestro y el asesinato, el gobierno socialista seguía siendo vulnerable a la acusación de ser "blando con los vascos".

  Mark Kurlansky

  Gobierno Socialista, Asesinato, Vulnerable

  Mark Kurlansky (2010). "La historia vasca del mundo", p.294, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Castilian Spanish-speaking Spain is big, but is bigger in addition with Catalonian-speaking Spain, Galician-speaking Spain and Basque-speaking Spain. Democratic Spain, Constitutional Spain, can not be separated from diversity and the respect to the citizenship.

  José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

  Diversity, Spain, Citizenship

  Speech in the French National Assembly, March 2005.

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• Vascos y celtas. Criminales y bárbaros. No creí que pudiera haber un emparejamiento de genes más primitivo.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Pensar, criminales, bárbaros

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• In the twelfth century the Basque fishermen of Biarritz used to hunt whales with deadly efficiency. When the whales sensibly moved away, the Basques chased them further and further, with the consequence that the fishermen of Biarritz discovered America before Columbus did. This is a matter for local pride but on a larger view it is not quite so stunning, since with the possible exception of the Swiss everybody discovered America before Columbus did.

  Clive James

  Pride, Views, Whales

  Clive James (1985). "Visitas Volantes"

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• Cuando tengo miedo -y siempre tengo miedo cuando tengo que enfrentarme a un público, cuando tengo que leer una crítica, cuando publico un libro...entonces, pienso en mi abuelo. Mi abuelo era un vasco fuerte y duro que nunca se doblegaba. .... ¿Qué hacía? Bueno, él seguiría adelante, cerraría los ojos, y seguiría adelante. Hazlo y el espíritu que llevas dentro....está ahí.

  Isabel Allende

  Strong, Book, Eye

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• If you go back a century in Europe, all over the place people were speaking different languages. There were dozens of languages in France and Italy, and they're all called French [and Italian], but they were not mutually comprehensible. They were different languages. And they have mostly disappeared in the last century or so. Some are being preserved, like Welsh, some are being revived, like Basque or Catelan to some extent. There are plenty of people in Europe who can't talk to their grandmother because they talk a different language.

  Noam Chomsky

  Grandmother, Italian, Europe

  Fuente: brightestyoungthings.com

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• In Europe there's kind of a reaction to the European Union, kind of a move towards some kind of regionalization. It's more advanced in some regions than others, like in Spain for example. Catelan was repressed under Franco. People spoke it, but not publicly. It's now the language of Catelonia. The Basque language is being revived, not just the language but the culture, the folk music and everything else. So you're getting more diverse societies, and it's happening in Britain as well.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Europe, Diverse Society

  Fuente: brightestyoungthings.com

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