Charles Bowden Quotes

• What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten.

  Charles Bowden

  Forgotten, Felt, Denied

  Charles Bowden (1995). “Blood orchid: an unnatural history of America”, Random House Inc

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• I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three things we could do this instant to help Mexico: legalize drugs, renegotiate NAFTA so that it pays a living wage, protects unions and protects the environment and stop Plan Merida which gives $500 million a year to the Mexican army, the largest single criminal organization in Mexico.

  Charles Bowden

  Liars, Army, Years

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• La legalización de las drogas causaría trastornos en la economía estadounidense: la industria penitenciaria, por ejemplo, y las decenas de miles de millones que se gastan anualmente en la represión antidroga. Pero como la economía estadounidense es tan grande, esto sería un golpe menor, apenas tan grave como la pesadilla definitiva para la economía estadounidense, la paz mundial, que cerraría su industria de la muerte comúnmente llamada complejo militar/industrial.

  Charles Bowden

  Military, Blow, Drug

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don’t believe in white wine; I insist on color.

  Charles Bowden

  Believe, Flower, Wine

  "Bad Luck on an Otherwise Fine Night" by Chuck Bowden, www.esquire.com. September 5, 2014.

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• Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.

  Charles Bowden

  Long, Water, Environmental

  Charles Bowden (1977). “Killing the Hidden Waters”, p.7, University of Texas Press

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• Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

  Charles Bowden

  Blue, Bird, Cooking

  "The Bone Garden of Desire" by Charles Bowden, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Fear of being killed and fear of killing attracts people to killers and murders. Anyone who has covered homicides for a daily paper soon learns this reality from the questions people ask of a story over coffee.

  Charles Bowden

  Coffee, Reality, People

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest licit source, oil sales. Mexico is a corrupt state that has now become dependent on the earnings on an illegal product. But inevitably, the product will become legal and then Mexico will retain its corruption but must face the needs of its citizens now employed by the drug industry who have become steeped in violence and conditioned to higher incomes.

  Charles Bowden

  Oil, Mexican, Drug

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.

  Charles Bowden

  War, Believe, Two

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