Pinochet's Quotes

#1. Naturally, I asked him what it'd been like to live through Pinochet's coup and the fall of Allende. Naturally, he regarded me with an expression of utter boredom; then he said:
'Like a Marx Brothers' movie, but with corpses. Unimaginable pandemonium.

Javier Cercas

#2. I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.

Augusto Pinochet

#3. Democracy is the breeding ground of communism,

Augusto Pinochet

#4. My message to France and Europe is that we will make sure Venezuela won't witness the rise of another Pinochet. And we will do it the democratic way.

Nicolas Maduro

#5. 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

#6. My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator ... If I were a dictator, You can be sure that many things have happened.

Augusto Pinochet

#7. My face is sour. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.

Augusto Pinochet

#8. Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.

Augusto Pinochet

#9. Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet.

John Ralston Saul

#10. Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation.

Augusto Pinochet

#11. 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

#12. Not a leaf moves in this country if I'm not moving it.

Augusto Pinochet

#13. I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.

Augusto Pinochet

#14. Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.

Augusto Pinochet

#15. I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

Fernando Flores

#16. I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face.

Augusto Pinochet

#17. I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have.

Augusto Pinochet

#18. We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.

Augusto Pinochet

#19. I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.

Augusto Pinochet

#20. 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

#21. My library is filled with UN condemnations.

Augusto Pinochet

#22. I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.

Augusto Pinochet

#23. 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

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

Augusto Pinochet

#25. Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.

Viggo Mortensen

#26. Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported.

Elliott Abrams

#27. 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

#28. Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.

Augusto Pinochet

#29. The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians.

Augusto Pinochet

#30. The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.

Augusto Pinochet