Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Jacobo Timerman

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a journalist Jacobo Timerman.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Jacobo Timerman

Jacobo Timerman, was a Soviet-born Argentine publisher, journalist, and author, who is most noted for his confronting and reporting the atrocities of the Argentine military regime's Dirty War during a period of widespread repression in which an estimated 30,000 political prisoners were disappeared. He was persecuted, tortured and imprisoned by the Argentine junta in the late 1970s and was exiled in 1979 with his wife to Israel. He was widely honored for his work as a journalist and publisher.

No one had to impose my enemies on me. I selected them myself. I didn't avoid them: I pointed them out, marked them, attacked them. — © Jacobo Timerman
No one had to impose my enemies on me. I selected them myself. I didn't avoid them: I pointed them out, marked them, attacked them.
We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.
I devoted myself simply to being a solitary person entrusted with a specific task.
One point has already been proven. Everything that happened once can happen again.
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