Samuel Ramos Quotes on Freedom
Samuel Ramos was a Mexican philosopher and one of the principal exponents of philosophy of lo mexicano, the reflective inquiry into the character of Mexican national life that flourished in the second quarter of the twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Samuel Ramos on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Samuel Ramos:
“A people that knows itself can begin to free itself.”
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Attributed to Samuel Ramos:
“Imitation of foreign culture without self-knowledge is sterile.”
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Attributed to Samuel Ramos:
“The task of philosophy in Mexico is the recovery of the Mexican.”
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“By those who stand aloof from us we are represented as grasping at wealth and territory, incapable of imaginative sympathy with subject races, and decking our misconduct with moral sentiments intended to impose on the world. From our own point of view, the extension of our rule is a benefit to the world, and subject races have gained far more than they have lost by submission to a just and beneficent administration, whilst our counsels have always, or almost always, been given with a view to free the oppressed and to put a bridle in the mouth of the oppressor.”
pp. 114-115