6 Quotes by Manlio Argueta

They taught us to manage money and how to et a good price for our eggs, chickens or pigs.We used to know how to do that -- we weren't dumb; but since we never had any surplus, we had no money to manage. The only money we ever saw went right past us; no sooner had we earned a few cents than they were spent on aspirin . . . those kinds of things.

Guadalupe Fuentes:--They're not paid to kill honest people, to shoot for no good reasons.Rubenia Fuentes:--Ah, my little girl, then why do you think they give them those big guns that look like tree branches and are larger than they themselves? To shoot, baby, to shoot. Because if they don't, that gives rise to talk that the authorities are useless, are nothing more than decoration.

We call our worst enemies dogs, but they don't deserve it because dogs are the friends of man.

Dogs have something of us in them. Something of God.

It was nicer that way. knowing that something called rights existed. The right to health care, to good and to schooling for our children . . . For us things were good; for others they were bad. Especially for the landowners, who are the ones who suffered most when we demanded our rights. They spend more and earn less.Besides, once we learned about the existence of rights we also learned not to bow our heads when the bosses scolds us.We learned to look them in the face.

We call our worst enemies dogs, but they don’t deserve it because dogs are the friends of man.