Jose Moa

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
― Martin Niemoller

“Verde que te quiero verde.
Verde viento.Verdes ramas.
El barco sobre la mar
y el caballo en la montaña.
Con la sombra en la cintura
ella sueña en su baranda,
verde carne,pelo verde,
con ojos de fria plata.”
― Federico García Lorca

“Del salón en el angulo oscuro
de su dueño tal vez olvidada
silenciosa y cubierta de polvo
veiase el arpa

¡Cuanta nota dormia en sus cuerdas
como el pájaro duerme en las ramas
esperando la mano de nieve
que sabe arrancarlas

-¡Ay!-pensé-.¡Cuantas veces el genio
asi duerme en el fondo del alma,,como Lazaro,espera
que le diga:"¡Levantate y anda!"
y una voz”
― Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism