Mexico

Capital:             Mexico City (Distrito Federal)
Government:     Federal republic
Currency:         Mexican peso (MXN)
Area:                1,972,550 sq km
Population:       106,202,903 (July 2006 est.)
Language:         Spanish, various Mayan, Nahuatl, and other regional indigenous languages

Mexico Quotes

He who doesn't look ahead remains behind.

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
-Carlos Fuentes

We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.
- Ricardo Flores Magon

Deserve your dream.
- Octavio Paz

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.----- Alma Guillermoprieto

Who loves a lot, forgives a lot.
- Amadeo Nervo

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
-Octavio Paz quotes

I never imagined my life would be the way that it has been for the past 30 years. I have had the best experiences a person can have-and the worst as well.
-Columba Bush

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
-Octavio Paz quotes

Do good and don't worry to whom.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
-Octavio Paz

The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.
- Carlos Salinas

Conversation is food for the soul.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
- Octavio Paz 

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
-Carlos Fuentes

Respect for the rights of others means peace.