Hugo Chavez Quotes

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

Oligarchy is to the advantage of the rich. Democracy to the advantage of the poor.

You, yourselves, are principally to blame for allowing this in the past. You have allowed great squatters of the worst type to rule you to their own advantage; they have themselves grabbed the good land, and they attempt to pose as your friends by offering you the crumbs that fall from their table. You have the power in your own hands now, and if you do not wish to be forever serfs of territorial gods almighty; if you have got any of the energy of your progenitors, you will not stand this kind of injustice any longer. You will say to them with me — Wealth that we make for you, money we earn; give us our share of them, give us a turn. If you have the pluck to say this, then return me as your representative, and I will lead you

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

Property is organized robbery.

Liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

Brazil was a capitalist society without capital.

I care not how affluent some may be, provided that none be miserable in consequence of it.

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

No man should be made poor so another man can be made rich.

Everyone suffers. Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. It falls on both the rich and the poor too. Leftist materialists imagine suffering to be a factor of economic circumstance.

Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, let us remind ourselves that totalitarianism not only extinguishes liberty but institutionalises poverty as well

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated.

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.