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Quotes by Imelda Marcos

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
– Imelda Marcos
God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
– Imelda Marcos
I am beyond logic and rationality.
– Imelda Marcos
I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
– Imelda Marcos
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
– Imelda Marcos
I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
– 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 have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
– Imelda Marcos
I think that's a very kinky issue with the panties and bras. That's the thing that they will display: shoes, panties and bras.
– Imelda Marcos
I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.
– Imelda Marcos
If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.
– Imelda Marcos
It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass.
– Imelda Marcos
It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
– Imelda Marcos
My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
– 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.
– 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?
– 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
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
We practically own everything in the Philippines.
– Imelda Marcos
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
– Imelda Marcos
Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
– Imelda Marcos
They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
– 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.
– 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.
– Imelda Marcos
The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.
– Imelda Marcos
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
– Imelda Marcos
My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
– 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.
– 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 will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
– 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.
– Imelda Marcos
I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
– 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.
– Imelda Marcos
I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
– 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.
– Imelda Marcos
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
– Imelda Marcos
Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.
– Imelda Marcos