Hugo Chavez Quotes

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few

... an apathetic indifferent meat in a sandwich that has an ever thinning slice of maniacal Plutocratic Gluttony on top and an ever thickening slice of rotten vermin rottening at the bottom.

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

All down history, nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding corn for the remaining one-tenth, been paid with the husks, and bidden to thank God they had the husks.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

Allow the rich (no matter under what pretext, whether of philanthropy, or patriotism, or interest) to prescribe the education of the poor, and they prescribe their condition and relative importance.

The possession of wealth does not confer upon the wealthy the right to take advantage of the less fortunate.

Trump wants to take us back to a time when people like him could abuse others with little to no consequence, when people like him could exploit the labor of others to build vast amounts of wealth, when people like him could create public policy that specifically benefited them while suppressing the rights and social mobility of others.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely with profits. They have no interest in the common good.

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

People say 'what do you mean' when you talk about 'bringing down civilization.' What I really mean is depriving the rich of the ability to steal from the poor and depriving the powerful of the ability to destroy the planet. That's what I really mean.

I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.