Quotes About Chile

The main concern in Chile is that [Allende] can consolidate himself, and the picture projected to the world will be his success. . . . If we let the potential leaders in South America think they can move like Chile and have it both ways, we will be in trouble.

Once again Chile reduces us to what R. L. Stevenson called 'the virginity of senses' where words cannot match the impressions received.

The accepted view appears to be that Neruda represent the real Chile: a place of poetry, freedom of spirit and international enterprise.

The cause of self-determination in Catalonia is no different to other citizen causes that fight for a fairer, more democratic future, as we've seen in Chile, Lebanon and Hong Kong.

Desolación (1922, 1923, 1926) fue su primer libro y el que marcó el rumbo de su vocación. Siguieron Ternura (1924, 1945), Tala (1938), Lagar (1954) y su canto póstumo Poema de Chile (edición de Jaime Quezada de Mistral [1996a]).

In the winter, I'm always in Europe. July and September are New Zealand and Chile camps. I'm always on the road.

As a manager, I won eight trophies in Chile, Ecuador, and Argentina.

[In Bolivia] We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together again.

If a country like Chile can fix its social security system, there is no reason a country as great as the United States... can't fix our Social Security system.

Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never happen in Chile. Chile was such a solid democracy. And when it happened, it had brutal characteristics.

It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet: a revolving door between corporate and political elites who combine their power to eliminate workers as an organized political force. The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.

What Chile pioneered under Pinochet was an evolution of corporatism: a mutually supporting alliance between a police state and large corporations, joining forces to wage all-out war on the third power sector—the workers—thereby drastically increasing the alliance's share of the national wealth.

I love king crab a lot. I love good Mexican food, good tacos, and chile rellenos.

Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.

Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.

The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer, who led me back through several incarnations. It wasn't easy to return to the present, however, since my friend hadn't reached that part of the course, but the experiment was well worth the effort because I discovered that in former lives I was not Genghis Khan, as my mother believes.

The deep Chile of the fascists had always been there, beneath the surface, just waiting to emerge. It was the triumph of the arrogant Right, the defeat of the people who believed in that utopian revolution.

Fourth of July picnic. And by the way, that picnic, like everything else in this land, is a model of efficiency: you drive at top speed, set up in a previously reserved space, spread out the baskets, bolt your food, kick the ball, and rush home to avoid the traffic. In Chile, a similar project would take three days.

No, literature was definitely not a reasonable career path in a country like Chile where intellectual scorn for women was absolute.

Compared to Europe, Chile was a happily backward and distant paradise. It was true that at this moment it had a center-left government: the president was from the Radical Party and a freemason. He was detested by the Right, and his name was never mentioned by the "best families," but he wasn't going to last long. The Left, with its coarse realism and vulgarity, had no future; the owners of Chile would make sure of that

Inés Suárez (1507-1580), española, nacida en Plasencia, viajó al Nuevo Mundo en 1537 y participó en la conquista de Chile y la fundación de la ciudad de Santiago. Tuvo gran influencia política y poder económico. Las hazañas de Inés Suárez, mencionadas por los cronistas de su época, fueron casi olvidadas por los historiadores durante más de cuatrocientos años.

Nada nos divierte tanto a los chilenos como burlarnos de nosotros mismos, aunque jamás soportaríamos que lo hiciese un extranjero.

In Chile we suffer from a particular form of hypocrisy. We act as if we're scandalized by any little peccadillo someone else commits at the same time that we are stacking up barbarous sins in private.

In my case, it's not so much wanting to live in Chile as it is the desire to recapture the certainty I feel there. That's my home ground.