Chileans Quotes:

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Country, Issues, People, Inhumane, Inhuman

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

- Isabel Allende

topic: Thinking, People, Would Be, Chile, Chileans

I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

- Pablo Neruda

topic: Love, Spring, Tree, Spring Love, Blossoming

I think about Chilean literature as a family, because I grew up reading the literature of my country. I feel like I have fathers and stepfathers and a lot of brothers and sisters and distant cousins and all that.

- Alejandro Zambra

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Country, Brother, Cousin, Stepfathers, Chileans

Paraguayans have no Italian blood and are half Guarani [Indian] blood. And the Chileans call themselves "the English of South America," which actually couldn't be further from the truth.

- John Gimlette

topic: Italian, Blood, America, South America, Chileans

Marketers have long known that a name can make all the difference when you're trying to move the merch. The kiwifruit was once the Chinese gooseberry, after all - at least until the produce peddlers wised up - and the Chilean sea bass was once the singularly unappetizing Patagonian toothfish.

- Jeffrey Kluger

topic: Moving, Sea, Names, Chileans, Peddler

There is something eminently Chilean about avoiding confrontation, or about not clarifying the way you feel sometimes. It's a particular culture, where emotions are not discussed as profusely with your family or friends, nor shown in an explicit manner.

- Omar Zuniga

topic: Culture, Way, Emotion, Chileans, Clarifying

Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.

- Jonathan Messinger

topic: Awards, Years, Easy, Bonsai, Chileans

I have lived with my conscience and my own memories for over quarter of a century since the events of 1973.... These are not easy reflections for me. But I am at peace with myself, and with the Chilean people, about what happened. I am clear in my mind that the return to Chile of true democracy, and from that the true freedom to which all individual people are entitled, could not have been achieved without the removal of the Marxist government.

- Augusto Pinochet

source: Statement, November 08, 1998.

topic: Memories, Reflection, Government, Chile, Removal

There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine.

- Michelle Bachelet

topic: Jobs, Pride, Years, Chileans

Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.

- Michelle Bachelet

topic: Memories, Tragedy, Important, Chileans

This is America. I don't want a tomato picked by a Mexican. I want it picked by an American, then sliced by a Guatemalan and served by a Venezuelan in a spa where a Chilean gives me a Brazilian.

- Stephen Colbert

source: "Colbert in Congress: Politics - or self-parody?". www.nbcnews.com. September 24, 2010.

topic: America, Giving, Mexican, Chileans, Spas

This is an instrument in the hands of the people for fighting the fascist saboteurs, because the Chilean armed forces are a guarantee of constitutionality and integrity.

- Salvador Allende

topic: Integrity, Fighting, Hands, Saboteurs, Chileans

I have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always take advantage of experience wherever it comes from, but adapting it to our reality. I am putting it to use in a Chilean way, for the problems of Chile. We are not anyone's mental colonists.

- Salvador Allende

source: Interview with Saul Landau, 1971.

topic: Reality, Use, Way, Chileans, Colonists