Quotes About Augusto Pinochet

#1. 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

#2. Emperor, king, general, duke," he whispered to himself. "These are just labels. Climb up the family tree of any of them high enough and you'll find a commoner who dared to take a chance.

Ken Liu

#3. I'm just happy to be working.

Jeremy Renner

#4. Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.

Augusto Pinochet

#5. The Heart Gallery premise is very simple. It is a special traveling exhibit of photographs featuring Los Angeles foster youth, designed to highlight the need to find loving adoptive families for waiting children.

Angela Featherstone

#6. How do you beat an individual who hasn't been beaten in 13 years? With the help of others.

Rulon Gardner

#7. 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.

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#8. The Marquis de Carabas liked being who he was, and when he took risks he liked them to be calculated risks, and he was someone who double-and triple-checked his calculations. He

Neil Gaiman

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

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

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#11. 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

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

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

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#14. You are energy, and energy cannot be created or destroyed. Energy just changes form. And that means You! The true essence of You, the pure energy of You, has always been and always will be. You can never not be.

Rhonda Byrne

#15. 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.

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#16. 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.

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#17. Democracy is the breeding ground of communism,

Augusto Pinochet

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

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

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

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

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

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#23. 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.

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#24. My library is filled with UN condemnations.

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

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#26. 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.

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

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#28. 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

#29. There is no reason for any of this if we don't survive."
Vince reached out and ran a hand through her long hair. "Ah, love. That's where you're wrong. As long as we do what we're meant to do, it doesn't really matter if we survive or not.

Erin Kellison

#30. The only beautiful thing in the whole country was the queen, and she had sold herself into a marriage with the Eddisian Thief, the very one whose hand she had cut off. There was a match made in hell.

Megan Whalen Turner

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

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

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#33. Something was nagging at me that I was trying to resist. Was it then or was it later that the thought came to me: if God really does exist, and is not just a myth, it must have a consequence for the whole of life. It was not a comfortable thought.

Jennifer Worth