Quotes by Evita Peron

Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.
– Evita Peron
By this time I had fallen in love with him as we both came from the same type of humble back ground. Also because he put his energy behind working people. With the power of the shirtless ones (the poor) he was swept to power. He was then put under arrest so we decided to get married secretly .
– Evita Peron
Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
– Evita Peron
I am my own woman.
– Evita Peron
I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron and my people.
– Evita Peron
I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.
– Evita Peron
I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.
– Evita Peron
I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .
– Evita Peron
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.
– Evita Peron
I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.
– Evita Peron
I was born Maria Eva Duarte in one of those miserable dry and sleepy little towns in 1919.
– Evita Peron
I will come again, and I will be millions.
– Evita Peron
I will return and I will be a million.
– Evita Peron
If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.
– Evita Peron
In government, one actress is enough.
– Evita Peron
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
– Evita Peron
My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.
– Evita Peron
One cannot accomplish anything without fanatacism.
– Evita Peron
Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.
– Evita Peron
Suffer little children and come unto me.
– Evita 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.
– Evita Peron
There are some oligarchs that make me want to bite them just as one crunches into a carrot or a radish.
– Evita Peron
Time is my greatest enemy.
– Evita Peron
To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.
– Evita Peron
When my father died it left me without any financial support. At the age of fifteen I ran off to Buenos Aires with a passing musician who promised to make me a film star . But soon after the musician left, I managed to stay alive by playing small parts in the theatre and films .
– Evita Peron
When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
– Evita Peron
When the rich think of the impoverished, they think of impoverished desires.
– Evita Peron
Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.
– Evita Peron
Yes, well I do have plenty of clothes, jewels and money. However I don't ask for money for myself but if some one gives me money I take it and put it in The Eva Peron Foundation which gives huge amounts of money to the poor and helps to build hospitals , schools and old peoples' homes .
– Evita Peron
You must want! You have the right to ask! You must desire.
– Evita Peron