In the midst of the serious moral crisis that plagues our country, José Manuel de los Reyes González de Prada y Álvarez de Ulloa, who signed as Manuel Gonzalez PradaIt’s one of the writers most influential in our history and today it is valid.
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He was born on January 5, 1844 and died on July 22, 1918. Let us recall some of his famous phrases:
“You have to heal and educate yourself, to be free from two equally abominable plagues: the habit of obeying and the desire to command. With the souls of slaves or bosses, one only goes to slavery or tyranny”.
“The political authorities, far from supporting the weak and poor, almost always help the rich and strong.”
“Where there is no justice, mercy, or benevolence, there is no civilization.”
“In summary, today Peru is a sick organism: where the finger is applied, pus sprouts.”
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“Our form of government is reduced to a big lie, because a State in which two or three million individuals live outside the law does not deserve to be called a democratic republic.”
“May new trees come to give new flowers and new fruits! The old to the grave, the young to the work!
“Given the general inclination of men to abuse power, all government is bad and all authority means tyranny, as all law translates into the sanction of inveterate abuses. By fighting forms of government, authorities, and laws, by setting himself up as a dissolvent of political force, the libertarian paves the way for revolution.
“There are charities that inspire hatred of charity, just as there are virtues that inspire love of vice.”
“True, the path of sincerity is not surrounded by roses: each truth that comes from our lips arouses implacable hatred, each step in a straight line means one less friend. The truth isolates; It doesn’t matter: nothing is lonelier than the peaks”.
“Justice consists in giving each man what is legitimately his due; let us, therefore, give to ourselves the part that touches us in the goods of the Earth. Being born imposes on us the obligation to live, and this obligation gives us the right to take not only what is necessary, but also what is comfortable and pleasant. Man’s life is compared to a voyage at sea. If the Earth is a ship and we are passengers, let us do our best to travel first class, having good air, a good cabin and good food, instead of resigning ourselves to being at the bottom of the cove where a pestilential atmosphere is breathed, sleeps on logs rotten by humidity and consumes the waste of lucky mouths. Are the provisions abundant? Well, everyone to eat according to their need. Do you run out of groceries? Well, everyone to a ration, from the captain to the lowest cabin boy”.
González Prada on a country walk in Lima. To his right, the significant presence of Ricardo Palma, with whom he would later hold heated debates.
What did Manuel González Prada die of?
He died suddenly at his home in Lima, at the age of 74, the victim of cardiac arrest. He was buried in a mausoleum in the Presbítero Matías Maestro cemetery.
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Defender of freedom and enemy of corruption and exploitation, Manuel González Prada wrote the essays ‘Pájinas libres’ (1894) and ‘Horas de lucha’ (1908).
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