Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony.

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.

I covet solitude and storms…and rain, with its geography of dark silence and distance

Time was made for slaves.

The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.

Sweat has the power to end a pity party in such a way that even the hostess is happy.

I want to explore new ideas and put myself in a place where I can finish a project that is more unusual or that doesn't seem doable.

You don't want to live in the past. Everything in life is in the future. You don't want to continue to be buried in the past.

When we're impatient with beginners around us, we would do well to sign up for a class in scuba diving, ballroom dancing or anything else totally brand-new for us.

Every day you try to get better.