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Quiroga is a successful Chinese merchant with significant influence in Manilan business and society. Despite his power and wealth, Quiroga remains marginalized due to his Chinese background, and he strives to establish a Chinese consulate in the city. Quiroga’s riches don’t prevent his own falling into debt in his attempts to please Pepay. Simoun ruthlessly exploits this relationship to force Quiroga to stockpile weapons for him—which,, unbeknownst to Quiroga, are to be used in the planned revolution
Quiroga Quotes in El Filibusterismo
The El Filibusterismo quotes below are all either spoken by Quiroga or refer to Quiroga. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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16. The Tribulations of a Chinaman
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The Chinaman respected the jeweler a great deal not only for his wealth but for the rumored influence he had over the captain-general. It was said that Simoun favored the Chinaman’s aspirations and was in favor of the consulate. A certain Sinophobic newspaper had made veiled references to him, though with a great deal of periphrasis, indirection, and sly suggestion, and in its well-known polemic enjoined the partisan newspaper of the people of the queue. Some of the more circumspect people added with nudges and winks that the Dark Eminence counseled the general to value the Chinese while depreciating the rigorous dignity of the natives.
“To subjugate a people,” he said, “there is nothing like humiliating them and debasing them in their own eyes.”
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19. The Fuse
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Simoun suddenly stopped speaking, as if he had been cut off. Somewhere inside him a voice asked if he, Simoun, were not indeed part of the trash of that damned city, perhaps even its most destructive ferment. And as the dead rise at the sound of the eternal trumpet, a thousand bloody ghosts, desperate shadows of murdered men, dishonored women, fathers torn from their families, vices engendered and fostered, virtues rejected now rose up in the echoes of that mysterious question. For the first time in his career as a criminal, since Havana, when through vice and bribery he had decided to create a means to carry out his plans, a man without faith, without patriotism, without conscience, for the first time in that era of his life something inside of him came out and protested his actions.
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Quiroga Quotes in El Filibusterismo
The El Filibusterismo quotes below are all either spoken by Quiroga or refer to Quiroga. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
16. The Tribulations of a Chinaman
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The Chinaman respected the jeweler a great deal not only for his wealth but for the rumored influence he had over the captain-general. It was said that Simoun favored the Chinaman’s aspirations and was in favor of the consulate. A certain Sinophobic newspaper had made veiled references to him, though with a great deal of periphrasis, indirection, and sly suggestion, and in its well-known polemic enjoined the partisan newspaper of the people of the queue. Some of the more circumspect people added with nudges and winks that the Dark Eminence counseled the general to value the Chinese while depreciating the rigorous dignity of the natives.
“To subjugate a people,” he said, “there is nothing like humiliating them and debasing them in their own eyes.”
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19. The Fuse
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Simoun suddenly stopped speaking, as if he had been cut off. Somewhere inside him a voice asked if he, Simoun, were not indeed part of the trash of that damned city, perhaps even its most destructive ferment. And as the dead rise at the sound of the eternal trumpet, a thousand bloody ghosts, desperate shadows of murdered men, dishonored women, fathers torn from their families, vices engendered and fostered, virtues rejected now rose up in the echoes of that mysterious question. For the first time in his career as a criminal, since Havana, when through vice and bribery he had decided to create a means to carry out his plans, a man without faith, without patriotism, without conscience, for the first time in that era of his life something inside of him came out and protested his actions.
