Evo Morales famous quotes

Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.
-- Evo Morales

#Country #Latin #America

We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.
-- Evo Morales

#Mother #Needs #World

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.
-- Evo Morales

#Mother #Rights #Earth

Some countries of Europe have to free themselves from the US Empire. They are not going to frighten us because we are a people with dignity and sovereignty.
-- Evo Morales

#Country #Europe #People

For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.
-- Evo Morales

#Mean #Fighting #Want

The 21st of December marks the end of the time and the beginning of no-time
-- Evo Morales

#December #Ends #Mark

The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn't acknowledge this reality, that the national states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated.
-- Evo Morales

#Health #Reality #Rights

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.
-- Evo Morales

#Country #Understanding #Intellectual

Israel does not respect the principles or purposes of the United Nations charter nor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
-- Evo Morales

#Rights #Israel #Purpose

The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.
-- Evo Morales

#Way #Resistance #Impossible

The U.S. should be equally responsible for diminishing the cocaine market within the United States as it is in fighting the drug elsewhere.
-- Evo Morales

#Fighting #Drug #United States

I am not accustomed to protocol.
-- Evo Morales

#Protocol

I'm just the democratic voice of Bolivia.
-- Evo Morales

#Voice #Bolivia #Democratic

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.
-- Evo Morales

#Hurt #Latin #America

Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way of tracking down the drug traffickers.
-- Evo Morales

#Dirty #Drug #Secret

Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity
-- Evo Morales

#Humanity #Enemy #Worst

Baldness that appears to be normal is a disease in Europe, almost all of them are bald, and that is because of the things they eat; while among the indigenous peoples there are no bald people, because we eat other things
-- Evo Morales

#Europe #People #Disease

We are going forward with the idea of a multicultural , a multinational state, trying to live in unity, at the same time respecting our diversity...But we need to all come together so we can live united.
-- Evo Morales

#Respect #Ideas #Diversity

Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.
-- Evo Morales

#Latin

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.
-- Evo Morales

#Unemployment #Misery #Economic

The chicken that we eat is chock-full of feminine hormones. So, when men eat these chickens, they deviate from themselves as men.
-- Evo Morales

#Men #Feminine #Chickens

Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet...Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life.
-- Evo Morales

#Choices #Energy #Climate

We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty...
-- Evo Morales

#Honesty #Mean #Community

The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.
-- Evo Morales

#Rights #Diversity #Republic

I don't debate with liars.
-- Evo Morales

#Liars #Lying #Debate

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.
-- Evo Morales

#Political #Enemy #Culture

Almost everyone is bald. And thats because of what they eat.
-- Evo Morales

Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.
-- Evo Morales

#Animal #Cities #Ddt

Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.
-- Evo Morales

#Majority #Bolivia #Indigenous

This is a coca leaf. This is not cocaine. This represents the culture of indigenous people of the Andean region.
-- Evo Morales

#People #Culture #Cocaine

All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible.
-- Evo Morales

#People #Bolivia #World

The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia but worldwide. We need to have bilateral relations characterized by mutual respect.
-- Evo Morales

#Government #United States #Needs

I learned that the political is above the legal, that's why when my advisors tell me, Evo, what you are doing is illegal, I say, if it is illegal, then do it legal, you have studied for that".
-- Evo Morales

#Political #Illegal #Advisors

I am sure of the fact that Fidel and Chávez are commanders of the forces of freedom in America, to liberate America and the world.
-- Evo Morales

#America #World #Facts

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.
-- Evo Morales

#Giving Up #Thinking #Luxury

I want to stress that at no time Bolivia acts untimely or irresponsibly.
-- Evo Morales

#Stress #Bolivia #Want

I have a lot of hope for the Constituent Assembly.
-- Evo Morales

#Assembly

If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system.
-- Evo Morales

#Earth #Want #Ends

Friends, we have now won....I say to Aymaras, Quechuas, Chiquitaos, and Guaranis: for the first time we are going to be presidents. And I want to say to businesses, intellectual professionals, and artists: do not abandon us.
-- Evo Morales

#Artist #Intellectual #President

Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It's brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled industrialization of the resources of the Planet Earth.
-- Evo Morales

#Industrialization #Bolivia #Earth

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.
-- Evo Morales

#Lying #Latin #Law

The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.
-- Evo Morales

#Believe #Cost #Environment

The Bolivian government has promised to guarantee autonomy in the framework of unity, legality, and with the goal of equalizing the different regions of Bolivia. It's right there in the constitution.
-- Evo Morales

#Government #Goal #Unity

Imagine what our planet would look like with an increase in temperature of two degrees or four degrees, given that at 0.8 degrees we already have serious problems in the world.
-- Evo Morales

#Two #Degrees #Looks

The fight against drug trafficking is a false pretext for the United States to install military bases.
-- Evo Morales

#Military #Fighting #Drug

There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.
-- Evo Morales

#Past #Community #Way