Augusto Pinochet famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Blood #Democracy #Sometimes
I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Real #Dictator
I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Dictator
The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#People #Giving #Wealth
My library is filled with UN condemnations.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Library #Condemnation #Filled
The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Country #Trying #Chile
He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis acted against Israelites; but the fault is not only of Hitler, but a group of high-ranked dignitaries.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Groups #Brutality #Faults
The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Rights #Issues #Oblivion
Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Dictator #Stills
The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Military #People #Political
I have lived with my conscience and my own memories for over quarter of a century since the events of 1973.... These are not easy reflections for me. But I am at peace with myself, and with the Chilean people, about what happened. I am clear in my mind that the return to Chile of true democracy, and from that the true freedom to which all individual people are entitled, could not have been achieved without the removal of the Marxist government.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Memories #Reflection #Government
I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Poor
We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Political #Prison #Exile
Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Becoming #Action #Problem
During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Thank You #Heart #Years
Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Christian #Cutting #Rome
Not a leaf moves in this country if I'm not moving it.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Country #Moving #Leafs
Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people chose Barabbas.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#People #World #Forget
Democracy is the breeding ground of communism,
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Democracy #Communism #Breeding
I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Succeed #Election #Dictator
I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Men #Law #Dictator
My face is sour. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Faces #Dictator #Sour
Today, near the end of my days, I want to say that I harbor no rancor against anybody, that I love my fatherland above all and that I take political responsibility for everything that was done which had no other goal than making Chile greater and avoiding its disintegration.... I assume full political responsibility for what happened.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Responsibility #Goal #Political

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