Quote

What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another.

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
Another
Cannot
Thing
Really
Obtain

More quotes by Hugo Chavez

Image
What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to prison, certainly.
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
I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.
Hugo Chavez
Image
Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.
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 ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.
Hugo Chavez
Image
I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.
Hugo Chavez
Image
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 by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.
Hugo Chavez
Image
Racism is very characteristic of imperialism and capitalism. Hate against me has a lot to do with racism. Because of my big mouth and curly hair. And I'm so proud to have this mouth and this hair, because it is African.
Hugo Chavez
Image
Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights.
Hugo Chavez
Image
Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.
Hugo Chavez
Image
I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.
Hugo Chavez
Image
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
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
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
I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.
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
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
When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.
Hugo Chavez