Salvador Allende Quotes

Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.

Every country has its own reality and its own leaders, and the leaders act in accordance with their reality.

If the U.S. is going to defend itself, why shouldn't we do the same? We only want to be treated equally, nothing more.

First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.

People can progress only by working and producing more.

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.

People can come and see me, and I have the pleasure of being able to talk to them.

I still believe in what I believed in for 20 years as a Socialist in Parliament, and being a Socialist is not the same as being a utopian.

It's much harder to bring about socialism through legal means, because there are so many possibilities for opposition.

Chile is a country that sells cheap and buys expensive, because we have to pay for manufactured goods from countries at much higher levels of development.

I was a minister in the Frente Popular (Popular Front) government, one of the three in Chile during the Pedro Aguirre Cerda years, and I was as much a Socialist then as I am today.

I have often said that it doesn't matter to me if a student tells me he is a leader of the left, unless he is a good student. We need good students.

There can be leftist groups that have not matured politically.

I can't spend my whole day talking to people.