Hugo Chavez Quotes

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


2. 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.

3. I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

4. We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.


5. There is no turning back.


6. I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell.

7. I remember. How many minutes do I have left President? About one, one minute.

8. 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.




9. 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.

10. We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.





11. Long live the Unity of Latin America.

12. 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.

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

14. They do not walk in...the path of Christ.

15. Venezuela has changed forever.

16. This has been a great victory for the Venezuelan people.

17. The devil came here yesterday, and it smells of sulfur still today.

18. Families go and begin to disguise their children as witches. This is contrary to our way.

19. I have always said, have heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but perhaps capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived, and finished that planet.

20. I read that 3,000 soldiers are arriving, Marines armed as if they were going to war. There is not a shortage of guns there, my God. Doctors, medicine, fuel, field hospitals, that's what the United States should send.

21. It's very difficult to explain, even with the law of probabilities, what has been happening to some of us in Latin America.

22. Would it be so strange that they've invented technology to spread cancer and we won't know about it for 50 years?

23. I give you a replica of liberator Simon Bolivar's sword. For you who, like Bolivar, took up arms to liberate your people. For you who, like Bolivar, are and will always be a true freedom fighter. (Mugabe) continues, alongside his people, to confront the pretensions of new imperialists. 




24. When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force. The attacks on Venezuela are a sign of weakness, ideological weakness. Nowadays almost nobody defends neoliberalism. Up until three years ago, just Fidel (Castro) and I raised those criticisms at Presidential meetings. We felt lonely, as if we infiltrated those meetings. 

25. Just look at the internal repression inside the United States, the Patriot Act, which is a repressive law against U.S. citizens. They have put in jail a group of journalists for not revealing their sources. They won't allow them to take pictures of the bodies of the dead soldiers, many of them Latinos, coming from Iraq. Those are signs of Goliath's weaknesses. 

26. The south also exists...the future of the north depends on the south. If we don't make that better world possible, if we fail, and through the rifles of the U.S. Marines, and through Mr. Bush's murderous bombs, if there is no coincidence and organization necessary in the south to resist the offensive of neo-imperialism, and the Bush doctrine is imposed upon the world, the world will be destroyed.

27. 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. 

28. 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. 

29. 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. 

30. The world should forget about cheap oil. (The price) will keep going up and some day arrive at US$100 per barrel.

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

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

33. (Hugo Chávez criticizes George W. Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina, during a cabinet meeting broadcast live on television) 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.

34. 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. 

35. 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.

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

37. (on Halloween) 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.

38. 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. 

39. We see here a model social state like the one we are beginning to create. 







40. (referring to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, to reporters during a state visit to Minsk, Belarus, on July 25, 2006) I have found yet another friend here. And with such a friend we will together form a team, like a soccer team. This will be a fighting team.

41. Mr. Obama decided to attack us, Now you want to win votes by attacking Venezuela. Don't be irresponsible. You are a clown, a clown. Leave us in peace...Go after your votes by fulfilling that which you promised your people. 

42. (to Venezuelan television reporters just before being arrested for his participation in an attempted coup d'état, February 1992) Before anything else I would like to say good day to all of the Venezuelan people, and this Boliviarian message is directed to the brave soldiers in the Parachutist Regimen of Aragua and the Armed Brigade of Valencia. Friends: For now, lamentably, the objectives we considered were not achieved in the capital. That is to say, we here in Caracas have not managed to take power. You did very well over there, but now is the time to reflect; new situations will come and the country must definitively get on the path to a better destiny. So hear my word; hear Commander Chávez, who sends you this message so that you may please reflect and put down your weapons, because now, really, the objectives that we have brought to the national level are impossible to achieve. Friends: Hear this message of solidarity. I thank you for your loyalty, your valor, your exuberance, and I, before this country and before you all, assume responsibility for this Boliviarian militant movement. Thank you. 



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