Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It's worthless. "
Hugo Chavez
World
Born
War
Related Quotes:
" When we were children, we were told that we have a motherland, and that motherland was Spain. However, we have discovered later, in our lives, that as a matter of fact, we have several motherlands. And one of the greatest motherlands of all is, no doubt, Africa. "
Hugo Chavez
Matter
Fact
Doubt
" Kennedy was the driving force of reform in America. "
Hugo Chavez
Reform
Driving
Kennedy
" 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
Health
You
Think
" Racism is very characteristic of imperialism. Racism is very characteristic of capitalism. "
Hugo Chavez
Capitalism
Racism
Imperialism
" 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
Energy
Life
Research
" Aristotle might not recognize it, or others who are at the root of democracy. What type of democracy do you impose with marines and bombs? "
Hugo Chavez
Others
Who
You
" My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies. "
Hugo Chavez
Mother
Father
Importance
" I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy. "
Hugo Chavez
Energy
Living
Way
" Simon Bolivar, when history led him - and as Karl Marx said, men can make history, but only as far as history allows us to do so - when history took Bolivar and made him the leader of the independence process in Venezuela, he made that process revolutionary. "
Hugo Chavez
History
Independence
Leader
" Venezuela, with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, is a full member of Mercosur. And many other Latin American countries, CARICOM, Bolivia have expressed their support for Venezuela. The Arab League, the full Arab League has voiced its support. "
Hugo Chavez
Argentina
American
Support
" 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
Right
Government
Talk
" What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil. "
Hugo Chavez
Elite
Country
Government
" The government of the United States doesn't want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war. It wants peace, but what's happening in Iraq? What happened in Lebanon? Palestine? What's happening? What's happened over the last hundred years in Latin America and in the world? "
Hugo Chavez
War
World
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
Own
Live
Humanity
" They do not walk in... the path of Christ. "
Hugo Chavez
Path
Christ
Walk
" 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
Lifestyle
Change
Capitalism
" The U.S. only has 20 billion barrels of oil in reserve. It seems as though there is no more oil around. Venezuela has 300 billion barrels of oil in reserves. Iraq has, like, 150 billion barrels of oil. Iran, close to 300 billion barrels of reserve. Oil for 200 years, of course. "
Hugo Chavez
Only
Venezuela
Years
" 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
Dream
Baseball
" The president of the United States of North America, George W. Bush, the little gentleman of the North, the political cadaver that is visiting South America, that little gentleman is the president of all the history of the United States, and in the history of the United States, he has the lowest level of approval in his own country. "
Hugo Chavez
Gentleman
America
History
" Terrorists bombard complete cities, such as Fallujah, Baghdad, innocent women and children. "
Hugo Chavez
Complete
Women
Children
" I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. "
Hugo Chavez
Born
Corn
Grandmother
" I neglected my health, and I was reluctant to have medical check-ups. It was a fundamental mistake for a revolutionary, to the Venezuelan people and the international public opinion. "
Hugo Chavez
People
Health
Medical
" There is film of the Americans landing on the moon. Does that mean the moon shot really happened? In the film, the Yanqui flag is flying straight out. So, is there wind on the moon? "
Hugo Chavez
Mean
Wind
Moon
" The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources. Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era. "
Hugo Chavez
Life
Oil
Planet
" I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet. "
Hugo Chavez
American
Planet
Empire
" The problem is not the oil, but what they do with the oil. The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources. "
Hugo Chavez
Planet
Resources
Oil
" There is no turning back. "
Hugo Chavez
Turning
Back
No Turning Back
" Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels. "
Hugo Chavez
Gorgeous
Dictators
Even
" I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings. "
Hugo Chavez
Years
Injustice
Human
" If we reduced the military expenses in 10 percent of the world, we would have enough money to save millions of lives in this world. "
Hugo Chavez
World
Money
Enough