Evita Peron Quotes

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron.

The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.

I will return and I will be a million.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

Sometimes I have wished my insults were slaps or lashes; I've wanted to hit people in the face and make them see, if only for a day, what I see each day I help people.

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

You must want! You have the right to ask! You must desire.

I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange thing is that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there were people who were rich.

I will come again, and I will be millions.

I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron and my people.

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

Suffer little children and come unto me.

Time is my greatest enemy.

One cannot accomplish anything without fanatacism.

I am my own woman.

Our President has declared that the only privileged person in our country are the children.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.