Reflections

– About words to hurt or comfort
– About prophets of calamities
– About the one and only truth
About words to hurt or comfort

I keep holding on words because it is our job to transform them into instruments of understanding rather than of despise. We have to choose whether we want to use them to curse or heal, to hurt or comfort.

Elie Wiesel
About prophets of calamities

They sometimes find their way to our ears, hurting them, certain insinuations from some people that, even in their fiery jealousy, lack a sense of discretion and restraint. They see nothing in modern times but perversion of justice and ruin […] We believe it is fair to disagree with such prophets of calamities, highly experienced in terms of always announcing unfortunate events, as if the end of time was imminent.

Juan XXIII

About the one and only truth

The one and only truth does not exist elsewhere than just in the minds of those who are nostalgic for Stalinism, in the dogmatism that says there is only one way to understand politics or human solidarity. Or those who believe that this system the world is bearing is the only possible one.

Eduardo Galeano