The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.

If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.

So you say you love the poor? Name them.

If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the factories and slums, on the farms and in the mines, then my world changes.

Liberation from every form of exploitation, the possibility of a more human and dignified life, the creation of a new humankind - all pass through this struggle.

In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.

The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.

The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order.

Once causes are determined, then there is talk of "social injustice" and the privileged begin to resist.

[Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek.

Theology is reflection, a critical attitude. The commitment of love, of service, comes first. Theology follows; it is the second step.

How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn to put up with because they couldn't quite disown them.

Listen to the arts of kids, their hands when tied have wings.

The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.

Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.

The situation is clear. I trust in my ability, I trust in what I do and, if people put their trust in me, I will deliver for them.

I've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out.

I've been working on the margins and I was aware of this choice from the start. I buy most of what's written and produced in the Arab world and I don't much like it.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

Instead of using medicine, better fast today.

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.