For as long as you are on the Philippines and you are a human being, and can carry the virus, get vaccinated! You choose: vaccine or I will have you jailed.
Rodrigo Duterte, June 2021The divine flame of thought is inextinguishable in the Filipino people, and somehow or other it will shine forth and compel recognition. It is impossible to brutalize the inhabitants of the Philippines!
Jose RizalThe government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities.
Jose RizalRaymond: "Here are two pictures. One is your locker, the other is a garbage dump in the Philippines. Can you tell which is which?"
Jacob: "That one's the dump?"
Raymond: "They're both your locker!"
I could not have told where those damned islands were within 2,000 miles.
William McKinley