Quotes from Hugo Chavez

Venezuela has the largest oil reserve, and Venezuela has to defend itself.

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.

The attack on Syria has begun, they are accusing President Assad of killing his people. And the Yankees want to come in and bomb the people in order to save them. What shameless cynicism. It's a new strategy they've invented, to generate violent armed conflicts and spill blood in a country in order to then bomb it and intervene and take ownership of its natural resources and convert it into a colony.

It wouldn't be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but once capitalism got there it would finish the planet

wouldnt be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but once capitalism got there it would finish the planet.

I think we are suffering from political impotence. We need political Viagra.

I bring in my heart the weeping and crying Caribbean Orinoco.

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.

Being rich is bad and inhumane. So condemn the rich.

Much of Europes wealth comes from the mineral riches of the new world, which fed the coffers of the monarchies of Europe.

The world has enough for everybody, but some minorities, the descendants of the same people that crucified Christ, and of those that expelled Bolvar from here and in their own way crucified him . . . have taken control of the riches of the world.

If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.

It is a victory of shit and our defeat. Call it a defeat, but of courage, value and dignity.

Childbirth is full of optimism, full of light, of faith in Christ, of battling and overcoming.

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.

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

Weve been around for 500 years and never shut up, much less to a monarch. The king is the head of state just like me. The only difference is I've been elected three times with 63 per cent. We are equal as heads of state, be it the leader of the Indian State Evo Morales or King Juan Carlos of Spain.

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.

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.

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

Some people point to me as the cause of all society's problems, others as if I am the benefactor, responsible for everything good, but I am neither the former nor the latter. I am but a man in particular circumstances, and the most beautiful part is that an individual human life is capable of contributing to the growth, the awakening of the collective strength. That is what matters!