75 Quotes by Miguel Syjuco

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

To be angry implies you care

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

I used to believe authenticity could be achieved solely by describing, in our own words, one's own fragment of experience. This was of course predicated on the complete intellectual and aesthetic independence of the "I". One eventually realizes such intellectual isolationism promotes style, ego, awards. But not change.

A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have.

morality... comes at a price.

Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.

The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.