Hugo Chavez Quotes

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Freedom's skeptics must understand that the democracy that hates you is less dangerous than the dictator who loves you.

The price of freedom is less than the cost of repression.

The Chinese people are not a new kind of human nature. Human nature in China is the same as it is elsewhere. When you start in a tyrannical regime to hand out freedom there is no place to draw that line and expect that line to hold. And so it’s only a matter of time before this regime comes down

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

... timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.

We Africans continue to allow tyrannical regimes to impose themselves on us.

You don’t go from tyranny to democracy overnight.

In a hundred years to come my people will not be fit for liberty. They do not know what it is….Despotism is the proper government for them.

One man’s democratization is another man’s destabilization.

Where is the democracy that British gave us? Ayub Khan robbed us of it. And what did he give us in return ? He gave us his own version of democracy which does not even deserve the name of democracy.

Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.

There are many democracies in our Arab and Islamic countries, but unfortunately, they are all false democracies.

If ... America is to become an empire, there is very little chance that it can avoid becoming a virtual dictatorship as well.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty

Politics without responsibility IS fascism.

I don't want to take power. I want to break the wall of this autocratic regime.

Iraq is better without Saddam Hussein than with Saddam Hussein. Without a doubt.