Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Hugo Chavez
Age: 58 †
Born: 1954
Born: July 28
Died: 2013
Died: March 5
Military Officer
Politician
Statesman
Ashland
Alabama
The Commander
Hugo Chavez
Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías
Built
Soviet
Kind
Socialism
Systems
Union
Unions
Develop
Emerge
Competition
Invent
Saws
Cooperation

More quotes by Hugo Chavez

Image
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
Image
We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.
Hugo Chavez
Image
That man, the king of vacations... the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but, you have to flee, and didn't say how... that cowboy, the cowboy mentality.
Hugo Chavez
Image
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
Image
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.
Hugo Chavez
Image
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.
Hugo Chavez
Image
I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.
Hugo Chavez
Image
Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society.
Hugo Chavez
Image
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.
Hugo Chavez
Image
Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.
Hugo Chavez
Image
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.
Hugo Chavez
Image
I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.
Hugo Chavez
Image
I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.
Hugo Chavez
Image
The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks].
Hugo Chavez
Image
I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.
Hugo Chavez
Image
Israel criticizes Hitler a lot, so do we, but they've done something very similar, even worse, than what the Nazis did.
Hugo Chavez
Image
If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.
Hugo Chavez
Image
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.
Hugo Chavez
Image
For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope ... and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act.
Hugo Chavez
Image
It doesn't smell of sulphur any more. No, it smells of something else. It smells of hope, and you have to have hope in your heart.
Hugo Chavez