Everyday I become more convinced, there is no doubt in my mind, and as many intellectuals have said, that it is necessary to transcend capitalism. But capitalism can't be transcended from with capitalism itself, but through socialism, true socialism, with equality and justice. I'm also convinced that it is possible to do it under democracy, but not in the type of democracy being imposed by Washington.

Hugo Chavez

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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

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I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

Hugo Chavez

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Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.

Hugo Chavez

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Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.

Hugo Chavez

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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

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What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

Hugo Chavez

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The Devil is right at home. The Devil, the Devil himself, is right in the house. And the Devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the Devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulphur still today. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the Devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.

Hugo Chavez

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Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

Hugo Chavez

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The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat... is represented by U.S. imperialism.

Hugo Chavez

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

Hugo Chavez

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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.

Hugo Chavez

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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

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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

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Israel criticizes Hitler a lot, so do we, but they've done something very similar, even worse, than what the Nazis did.

Hugo Chavez

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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.

Hugo Chavez

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

Hugo Chavez

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But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship - it's a revolutionary democracy.

Hugo Chavez

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The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.

Hugo Chavez

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If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.

Hugo Chavez

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We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.

Hugo Chavez

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