Hugo Chavez Quotes

Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.

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

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Long live the Unity of Latin America.

When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.

Venezuela has changed forever.

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

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

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

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

Mr. Bush is an illegitimate President. In Florida, his brother Jeb deleted many black voters from the electoral registers. So this President is the result of a fraud.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.

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.

I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.

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.

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.

The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks].

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I concern myself with Venezuela. However, some rightwing movements are transforming me into a pawn in the domestic politics of their countries, by making statements that are groundless.

I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.

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

What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to prison, certainly.

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.

Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade.

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

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

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.