"Gabo was searching for the lost dream of the Latin American revolution"
Gerald Martin (official biographer)

​Gabriel García Márquez's views on politics in his quotes

​Deeply intertwined with his observations of social justice, human rights, and the plight of the marginalized, these quotes are from his own words that form a narrative about his political ideology:

Critique of Western Policies:​ "In the name of the values of Western culture, there is a silent genocide taking place, with impunity, against one billion human beings who are suffering from hunger."

On Imperialism and Intervention: "The United States should come to understand that if it wants to make friends with the Latin American countries, it has to respect their sovereignty."

On Revolution and Change: "A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth."

On Social Justice: "Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood."

On Economic Inequality: "The world must be all fucked up when men travel first class and literature goes as freight."

On the Power of the People: "The only thing that interests me is the struggle for the liberation of my country."
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On the Role of the Intellectual: "It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."

​He showscases his deep concern for human suffering, his critique of imperialism, and his belief in the power of dreams and storytelling to inspire political and social change.

More Quotes

On Love and Life:
"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams"
"No medicine cures what happiness cannot"
"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it"
On Solitude and Humanity:
"The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude"
"The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love"
"There is always something left to love"
On Writing and Art:
"The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary"
"Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale"
On Politics and Society:
"In the name of the values of Western culture, there is a silent genocide taking place, with impunity, against one billion human beings who are suffering from hunger"
"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast"
"The most important thing in life is to have something to eat, a roof over one's head, and a good story to tell before going to sleep"
On Latin America:
"The most important political task is to create a world where both George Bush and Saddam Hussein can live, not just where one can live"
"I would say that the main interest of Latin America is that we’ve had a different kind of development We don’t have a war, we don’t have racial problems, we don’t have ethnic problems, and we don’t have religious problems"