Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez

Ne changeons pas le climat, changeons le système et, par conséquent, nous commencerons à sauver la planète. Le capitalisme, le modèle de développement destructif est entrain d’en finir avec la vie, et menace certainement d’en finir avec l’espèce humaine.

Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez

Si le climat était une banque, les pays riches l'auraient déjà sauvé.

Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez

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

Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez

When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.

Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez

Nous sommes à un moment existentiel de la vie vénézuélienne. Nous avançons vers le socialisme, et rien ni personne ne pourra l'empêcher.

Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez

Le capitalisme est une machine infernale qui produit chaque minute une quantité impressionnante de pauvres.

Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez

Nous voulons des idées pour sauver notre planète, pour sauver la planète de la menace impérialiste. Et espérons que dans ce siècle-même, dans pas trop longtemps, nous verrons cette nouvelle ère. Et pour nos enfants et nos petits-enfants, un monde de paix basé sur les principes fondamentaux des Nations-Unies, mais de Nations-Unies rénovées. Et peut-être devrons-nous déménager leur

siège. Peut-être devons nous le mettre ailleurs; peut-être dans une ville du Sud. Nous avons proposé le Venezuela.

Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez

Comme Chomsky le dit [dans son livre] de façon claire et détaillée, l’empire américain fait tout ce qu’il peut pour consolider son système de domination. Et nous ne pouvons pas lui permettre de faire cela. Nous ne pouvons autoriser que la dictature mondiale se consolide. La déclaration du dépositaire du monde — cynique, hypocrite, emplie de cette hypocrisie impérialiste provenant de

leur besoin de tout contrôler.

Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez

Jusqu’à quand allons-nous permettre de telles injustices et inégalité? Jusqu’à quand allons-nous tolérer l’actuel ordre économique international et les mécanismes de marché en vigueur?

Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez

Au-delà et au-dessus de tout cela, je pense que nous avons des raisons d’être optimistes. Un poète aurait dit « désespérément optimistes », parce qu’au-dessus et au-delà des guerres et des bombes et de la guerre agressive et préventive et la destruction de peuples entiers, on peut voir qu’une nouvelle ère se dessine.

Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez

I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez

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.

Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez

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.

Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez

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.

Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez

The world has an offer for everybody but it turned out that a few minorities--the descendants of those who crucified Christ, the descendants of those who expelled Bolivar from here and also those who in a certain way crucified him in Santa Marta, there in Colombia--they took possession of the riches of the world, a minority took possession of the planet’s gold, the silver, the minerals, the

water, the good lands, the oil, and they have concentrated all the riches in the hands of a few; less than 10 percent of the world population owns more than half of the riches of the world.

Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez

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.

Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez

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.

Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez

Go to hell, gringos! Go home!…What does the empire want? Condoleezza said it. How are you? You’ve forgotten me, missy…Condoleezza said it clearly, it’s about creating a new geopolitical map in the Middle East…They took out Saddam Hussein and they hung him, for better or worse. It’s not up to me to judge any government, but that gentleman was the president of that country.

Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez

Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.

Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez

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