What do you think? Number 6
Just to show that we are a broadminded blog, Kenta chose this quote. It is from the former dictator of Chile, August Pinochet. The quote is:
"What people do not understand with words, they understand with action."
Kenta went on to say, "I like this word. I have many things I can't understand with words. Then, firstly, I always act without thinking, therefore I have a lot of failure. Of course I don't like failure, but I can get important things from failure. What do you think of it? Do you like it?"
posted by alex at 7:26 PM
4 Comments:
Shiori.
I'm confused. What is 'guataion'. I think we have a definte typing/spelling error here. What is the word you wanted to use?
Shiori,
Thank you for the clarification. I'm always telling you in class to try to guess new words from their context. If I had taken the time to do that, I would have realised that you meant 'quotation'. I am humbled.
Naoto makes a good point about Pinochet being 'an evil dictator...who killed many people'. This raises an interesting question. Can we take the words of any quote in isolation, or do we need to look at the context in which they were said and by whom they were said?
Today, December 11th, Augusto Pinochet died. The British newspaper, the Guardian, reported his death in this way.
'General Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean former dictator whose brutal regime cast a shadow over his country and the rest of the continent for more than three decades, died yesterday at the age of 91. ......Victims of human rights abuses during his 17-year rule gathered at a statue of Salvador Allende, the Chilean president who died during the 1973 coup, and urged the government to avoid giving any special honours at the burial. Their plea was heeded by President Michelle Bachelet, herself detained and tortured by Pinochet-era security forces, who said he would be buried with military honours, but would not be given a state funeral.'
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