Hugo Chavez quotes

Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Snakes #Fascists #Humans

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Painter #Wanted

I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Dream #Daughter #Sweet

Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Dog #Jobs #People

I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Christian #Justice #World

Racism is very characteristic of imperialism and capitalism. Hate against me has a lot to do with racism. Because of my big mouth and curly hair. And I'm so proud to have this mouth and this hair, because it is African.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Hate #Curly Hair #Racism

We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Gaddafi #Fighter #Remember

Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!
-- Hugo Chavez

#World #Empires #Said

If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Climate

To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants to mention it...Socialism, the other specter Karl Marx spoke about, which walks here too, rather it is like a counter-specter. Socialism, this is the direction, this is the path to save the planet, I don't have the least doubt. Capitalism is the road to hell, to the destruction of the world.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Doubt #Haunting #Want

I'm not loved by Hillary Clinton... and I don't love her either.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Clinton

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Hurt #Rebel #Poverty

Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Rising #Saying No #Imperialism

Some people point to me as the cause of all society's problems, others as if I am the benefactor, responsible for everything good, but I am neither the former nor the latter. I am but a man in particular circumstances, and the most beautiful part is that an individual human life is capable of contributing to the growth, the awakening of the collective strength. That is what matters!
-- Hugo Chavez

#Beautiful #Men #What Matters

The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat ... is represented by U.S. imperialism.
-- Hugo Chavez

#World #Imperialism #Threat

Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire,
-- Hugo Chavez

#Race #Empires #Humans

The Devil is right at home. The Devil, the Devil himself, is right in the house. And the Devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the Devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulphur still today. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the Devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Home #Talking #Smell

The imperialist, genocidal, fascist attitude of the U.S. president has no limits. I think Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W. Bush,
-- Hugo Chavez

#Baby #Attitude #Thinking

What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism. They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is contrary to our culture.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Children #Culture #Wizards

Venezuela has changed forever.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Forever #Venezuela #Changed

I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Christian #Jesus #Children

I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic. ... I'm very faithful. I believe in God, in Jesus Christ.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Christian #Mother #Jesus

It doesn't smell of sulphur any more. No, it smells of something else. It smells of hope, and you have to have hope in your heart.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Heart #Smell #Having Hope

Every factory must be a school to educate, like Che Guevara said, to produce not only briquettes, steel, and aluminum, but also, above all, the new man and woman, the new society, the socialist society.
-- Hugo Chavez

#School #Men #Steel

I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK. ... Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush?
-- Hugo Chavez

#Doe #Socialist #Company

If the United States was mad enough to attack Iran or aggress Venezuela again the price of a barrel of oil could reach $150 or even $200.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Iran #Oil #Mad

Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Israel #People #Mad

It makes one sad to see the sell-out of President Fox, really it makes one sad. How sad that the president of a people like the Mexicans lets himself become the puppy dog of the empire.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Dog #People #President

The descendants of those who crucified Christ... have taken ownership of the riches of the world, a minority has taken ownership of the gold of the world, the silver, the minerals, water, the good lands, petrol, well, the riches, and they have concentrated the riches in a small number of hands.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Taken #Hands #Land

Knowing English is important, but for us Venezuelans I think it would also be important to know Portuguese . For that reason, we should evaluate the possibility of it being taught in our schools.
-- Hugo Chavez

#School #Thinking #Knowing

That man, the king of vacations... the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but: "You have to flee." and didn't say how... that cowboy, the cowboy mentality.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Kings #Cowboy #Men

But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Democracy #Cuba #Revolutionary

I don't want to die. Please don't let me die.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Want #Wanting To Die #Let Me

Don’t let yourselves be poisoned by those wandering Jews.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Wander #Jew

We have to re-invent socialism. It can’t be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition,
-- Hugo Chavez

#Competition #Unions #Saws

I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Government #Wish #United States

Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Jesus #Eye #Thinking

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.
-- Hugo Chavez

#World #Path #Socialism

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Eugenics #Path #Socialism

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Democracy #World #Way

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Gorgeous #Dictator #Socialist

Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Mutual Respect #Mutual

Long live the Unity of Latin America.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Latin #America #Long

I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Country #Focus #Wish

I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.
-- Hugo Chavez

#President #Prisoner

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Believe #Our World #Government

There is no turning back.
-- Hugo Chavez

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Perfect #Democracy #Not Perfect

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Environmental #World #Environment

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Years #Machines #Hell

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Empires #Menace #Planets

I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Country #Thinking #Energy

Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Country #Iran #Venezuela

Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?
-- Hugo Chavez

#Government #People #Limits

We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Brother #Father #Order

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Book #Good Book #Stills

I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Reading #Drug #Addict

The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Path #Revolution #Violent

I haven't any thirst for revenge.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Revenge #Thirst

If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Morning #Men #Light

Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era. And that's what we must discuss: searching and developing new sources of energy. And that requires scientific research. That requires investment. And the developed countries must be the ones to assume this responsibility first.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Country #Responsibility #Oil

Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Latin #Years #America

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Cutting #Law #Community

I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet,
-- Hugo Chavez

#Civilization #Mars #Strange

Israel criticizes Hitler a lot, so do we, but they've done something very similar, even worse, than what the Nazis did.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Israel #Done #Nazi

We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Socialism #Lifestyle #Economic

Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Running #Book #Reality

I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Country #Thinking #People

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Country #Government #Oil

It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Lying #World #Congress

I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Kids #Tree #House

I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Country #Baseball #Dream

In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Latin #America #Government

We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Country #Venezuela #Insignificant

Everyday I become more convinced, there is no doubt in my mind, as many intellectuals have said, that it is necessary to transcend capitalism. But capitalism can not be transcended through capitalism itself; it must be done through socialism, true socialism, with equality and justice. I'm also convinced that it is possible to do it under democracy, but not in the type of democracy being imposed by Washington.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Justice #Doubt #Everyday

Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Rights #People #Water

The world should forget about cheap oil. [The price] will keep going up and some day arrive at US$100 per barrel.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Oil #World #Forget

When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Weakness #Imperialism #Resorts