Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.
I’m a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.
If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.
The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there’s no dictatorship here.
We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.
I’m a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.
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.
When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.
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.
I’m a reading addict. I can’t live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.
The revolution will survive. It does not rely solely on oil for its survival. There is a national will, there is a national idea, a national project.
An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.
I am a President held prisoner, that I haven’t resigned and I will not resign.
I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.
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.
We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries.
Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone’s colony.
In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about ‘free markets.’ It’s totally outdated; they don’t have arguments; they don’t have any sense.
I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.
I shook Obama’s hand and I said, ‘I want to be your friend.’ My hand is still outstretched. I am not Obama’s enemy, but it’s difficult not see imperialism in Washington. Those who don’t see it don’t want to see it, like the ostrich.