3 December 2020 Imelda Marcos The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don’t give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
3 December 2020 Imelda Marcos When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
3 December 2020 Imelda Marcos I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
3 December 2020 Imelda Marcos Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
3 December 2020 Imelda Marcos I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.
3 December 2020 Imelda Marcos They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
3 December 2020 Imelda Marcos I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
3 December 2020 Imelda Marcos Filipinos don’t wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
3 December 2020 Imelda Marcos The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.
3 December 2020 Imelda Marcos I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war… I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it’s too late.
3 December 2020 Imelda Marcos I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
3 December 2020 Imelda Marcos Never dress down for the poor. They won’t respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
3 December 2020 Imelda Marcos People say I’m extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
3 December 2020 Imelda Marcos Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
3 December 2020 Imelda Marcos I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
3 December 2020 Imelda Marcos The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn’t change the name of our country.
