Imelda Marcos quotes - page 2

Imelda Marcos is a Filipino politician and former First Lady of the Philippines, widely known for her extravagant lifestyle. Her extensive shoe collection and lavish spending became symbols of excess and controversy during her husband's regime. She remains a prominent and polarizing figure in Philippine society and politics. Here are 67 of her quotes:

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

Imelda Marcos

My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.

Imelda Marcos

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

Imelda Marcos

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

Imelda Marcos

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

Imelda Marcos

God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

Imelda Marcos

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

Imelda Marcos

It so coincided that Marcos had money. After the Bretton Woods agreement he started buying gold from Fort Knox. Three thousand tons, then 4,000 tons. I have documents for these: 7,000 tons. Marcos was so smart. He had it all. It's funny; America didn't understand him.

Imelda Marcos

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

Imelda Marcos

I've always maintained that the only things to uphold are the good, the true and the beautiful. We have to reject what's ugly.

Imelda Marcos

We never had such a violation of human rights. In fact, we have had no human rights case here in the Philippines, even to this day.

Imelda Marcos

Ferdinand had foresight and unbelievable luck. His success actually bordered on fiction.

Imelda Marcos

Thank God I never lost that childlike innocence and the purity of vision and naivete. ...That childlike innocence was most useful, because if I was a bit wiser, I wouldn't have been able to do anything, perhaps. So I'm glad I was not smart.

Imelda Marcos

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

Imelda Marcos

Diligence, hard work, foresight, entrepreneurship and God's blessing.

Imelda Marcos

Who is Imelda?' I come from a third world country, third class province. And I was orphaned-and look, Imelda made it. If Imelda made it everyone can make it. At this age and stage I feel so good I'm still ready to fly.

Imelda Marcos

The best compliment I ever got in my life came from Chairman Mao of China. When I went there, at a time when nobody wanted to touch China with a 10-foot pole, Mao told me that I'm beautiful because I'm a natural, and he said natural is perfection. So, no character assassination can diminish me and my perfection.

Imelda Marcos

I am beyond logic and rationality.

Imelda Marcos

The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

Imelda Marcos

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

Imelda Marcos

I would have to ask the public to choose between a culture of hate or a culture of love.

Imelda Marcos

They either love, love, love you, or hate, hate, hate you.

Imelda Marcos