“ A revolution does not have to eat its children. In fact, it is those who are in power who could very well initiate revolutions. Let us not be old-fashioned and think only of armed uprisings of minorit… F. Sionil Jose'
“ I was shocked at the revelation of her vaulting ambition, her greed. I should have loathed her or, knowing what kind of a person she was, I should have realized the futility of any personal attachment… F. Sionil Jose'
“ Duty comes in many forms; at times duty to country may conflict with duty to family. Yet, with a lucid mind the guises can be torn away and in the end, duty becomes but one, and that duty is to value… F. Sionil Jose'
“ I am a commuter, not between the city and the village, although I do this frequently; not between the inane idealism of the classroom and the stifling reality beyond it, which I must do for survival a… F. Sionil Jose'
“ No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates us from the animals. We have feelings. F. Sionil Jose'
“ Only with steadfast memories can we now be strong so as to undo the mistakes of the past, to begin anew and build from the rubble of their betrayal... F. Sionil Jose'
“ ...the mind can also be kind and does blot out those episodes of our existence that we can't erase in our consciousness. F. Sionil Jose'
“ Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause -- the readiness to give and not ask for anything in return, the unquestioning willingness to lose everything, even… F. Sionil Jose'
“ Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions. F. Sionil Jose'
“ We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. F. Sionil Jose'
“ There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things? They are not facts, they do not improve our business skills, our techni… F. Sionil Jose'
“ Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face. F. Sionil Jose'
“ The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities… F. Sionil Jose'
“ Shit!" I shouted at him. "Now listen, my friend. The youth have no role. They have no jobs. They have no money. They are not in power and they do not make decisions. If there is going to be a war, the… F. Sionil Jose'
