F. Sionil José

Francisco Sionil José (3 December 1924 – January 6, 2022) was one of the most widely read Filipino writers in English.

F. Sionil José in 2005

Quotes

• We are poor because our elites from way back had no sense of nation.

  Source: REVOLUTION AND THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES, Far Eastern Economic Review, December 2004, Vol. 168, No. 1

  Quoted by Kishore Mahbubani, The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East, 2010, p. 89