45 phrases by Leandro Karnal that are true reflections

Do it, because if you don’t, soon, the rest will be silence.

Books are powerful tools for transformation. And the more interest I have, the more interesting I get.

Unfortunately we’re running out of symbols, we’re running out of honesty references.

The head that finds the solution is the same one that elaborates the problem.

The non-acceptance of differences makes the world a horrible place. Anyone who accepts this is civilized. Anyone who doesn’t accept this is barbaric.

A spoiled child will be an unhappy adult.

What I think changes nothing but my thinking, what I do with it changes everything!

Indifference is probably the greatest and cruelest of human evils, because it means that I don’t even see you.

Although I am a melancholy optimist, I am an optimist.

The more options you have, the greater your anguish.

Only those who are good have friends, if they are not good, they will only have accomplices.

It is essential people of different ethnicities, it is essential that there are different opinions, even contrary to mine.

Every failure has its reason, as success has its cost.

We are alone and we will die alone. We are absolutely irrelevant to the Universe.

We will never reach heaven, but politics is necessary to prevent us from reaching hell.

Envy is a kind of blindness, it is the pain for the success of others.

One of the characteristics of culture is to make normal what is not.

Living together is always giving up elements of my freedom, waiting for others to give up some of their freedom and, together, we can find a point where “we” is possible.

Crowds are not synonymous with good political choice.

Anyone who respects the governor and doesn’t respect the cleaning lady is not a leader, but a self-interested one.

Hate is a reality that no Brazilian denies, but we deny that it is in me… or in my building, or in my family.

It is the fear of danger that drives me to the end of existence.

A person who decides not to know, accepts his condition as a slave, accepts his condition of submission; knowing is the condition for me to free myself from myself and from social ties.

True love is the love of difference, equal love is a narcissistic love.

Happiness is conserving energy for worthwhile things.

To be hated by some people is a great honor. It would be terrible if I were loved by those who hate.

What every fundamentalist state fears is the education of the people.

We live in a world where normal people are crazy and crazy people are normal.

Every act of erecting, building is an act of stone by stone. Where a stone can only be placed, when the previous one is already taking its place.

It is up to the teacher, especially the educator, to remove the obstacles between the person and the knowledge, and for the person to feel, in the teacher and educator, how knowledge has transformed that person.

It is in knowledge that there is a chance of liberation.

When I see young people asking for the return of the dictatorship, I feel that I, as a history teacher, have failed.

The shame is fading.

Vanity is always strong. Disguised as humility then, it is overwhelming.

As I’d rather feel watched than alone, I’d rather feel criticized than abandoned by indifference.

We don’t fix human relationships anymore, we trade. By exchanging shoes, computers and people we love for other people, we replace the pain of wear and tear with the vanity of novelty.

The internet is a neutral tool like a hammer: either fix it or destroy it.

The offense is a personal failure.

There is no neutrality in history. Neutral, for historians, is just coconut soap. Every opinion is political.

Change is very difficult, but not changing is fatal.

Ease is the name that vagabonds give to the effort of others.

Loneliness does not mean isolation, but it is the awareness that my pain is my pain, and in fact no one is responsible for my failure and no one is responsible for my happiness.