Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.

Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.

Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat... is represented by U.S. imperialism.

We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.

Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.

We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.

If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.

The path of light is the path of love.

Jingle bells, they ring in hell, never to be merry, they'll burn, they'll burn, please my dear be weary

Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.

As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.

Life is about flows not about stuff we have. Water in a tank turns bad. Water that flows gives life. Money in banks turn toxic, it must flow

If you're going to think mean things about me or not be a true friend, then we don't need to be friends.

I have seen horrible places and have risked my life, but I know that somehow God will always save me.

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.

Virtue is the beauty of the soul.