Canudos Quotes

“The Counselor brought about that miracle, he turned the wolf into the lamb, he brought him into the fold. And because he turned wolves into lambs, because he gave people who knew only fear and hatred, hunger, crime, and pillaging reasons to change their lives, because he brought spirituality where there had been cruelty, they are sending army after army to these lands to exterminate these people. How has Brazil, how has the world been overcome with such confusion as to commit such an abominable deed? Isn't that sufficient proof that the Counselor is right, that Satan has indeed taken possession of Brazil, that the Republic is the Antichrist?”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“Na verdade, havia "barbárie" em ambos os lados e mais entre aqueles homens instruídos que tinham sido incapazes de pelo menos tentar entender a gente sertaneja.”
― Boris Fausto, Historia do Brasil