Quotes by Hugo Chavez

“Castro has been a teacher for me. A master. Not on ideology but on strategy.”

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

“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.”

“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 independe...”

“Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run...”

“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.”

“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.”

“I will be very sad and worried if the imperialist government was calling me a great democratic man.”

“I don't care about the internal political system of the United States. I want to be a friend of United States, of its baseball, its institutions, its rock and roll, its workers, and its technology ...”

“We must be aware of consumerism! That's our tendency. It's the capitalistic curse that we were poisoned with. We should spend only what is necessary. How do you call the big cars, the latest ones? ...”

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

“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.”

“I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.”

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

“The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.”