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F. Sionil Jose Quotes

Filipino - Writer | December 3, 1924 -

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

Music Listening Want Bored Poet

It was in the sugar hacienda in Negros, Panay and in Central Luzon where I saw the injustices heaped upon the sugar workers, particularly the sacadas, or seasonal workers.

Sugar Workers Where Saw Central

In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the houses of Moros.

Alone Camera Way Always Over Just

Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.

Friend Faults Virtues Knew His Were

The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

Strength Criticism Powerful Unique

The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.

Family Past Important Never Symbols

What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.

Art Tradition Critical Fact Our

To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.

Good Alone Government Beer Farmer

We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai.

Art Turn Asian Japanese Even Thai

We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.

Morning Media Same Radio Noise Read

I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.

Past Religion Memory Building Envy

Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.

Ego Professional President Everyone

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