Quotes About Salvador Allende

#1. On December 4, 1972, President Salvador Allende of Chile told the United Nations General Assembly that his country would "no longer tolerate the subordination implied by having more than eighty percent of its exports in the hands of a small group of large foreign companies.

Stephen Kinzer

#2. The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#3. The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule.

Salvador Allende

#4. This is an instrument in the hands of the people for fighting the fascist saboteurs, because the Chilean armed forces are a guarantee of constitutionality and integrity.

Salvador Allende

#5. History is ours, and it is made by the people.

Salvador Allende

#6. I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so ... it's sinful, it really is.

Kevyn Aucoin

#7. The Seeker, The Search, The Sacred by Guy Finley is a very wise book, filled with inspiration to help you dramatically improve your life. I highly recommend it.

Daniel Amen

#8. Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.

Gerry Mulligan

#9. That he should actually let her

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#10. I have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always take advantage of experience wherever it comes from, but adapting it to our reality. I am putting it to use in a Chilean way, for the problems of Chile. We are not anyone's mental colonists.

Salvador Allende

#11. Whether you are right in the middle of a glamorous event or watching it from the sidelines, the red carpet Oscar events set the stage to showcase the latest designs and styles for those watching around the world.

Brad Goreski