Аугусто Пиночет цитаты (41 цитат) | Цитаты известных личностей

Interview (1989) quoted in " "Ego sum Pinochet" 1989, Inteview to Augusto Pinochet, authors Raquel Correa and Elizabeth Subercaseaux. http://www.guerraeterna.com/archives/2006/12/pinochet_y_hitl.html"
1980s

“Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.”

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Augusto Pinochet

Speech (December 31, 1995), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
1990s

“My library is filled with UN condemnations.”

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Speech (26 December 1986), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
1980s

“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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Speech (10 November 1995), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
1990s

“I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.”

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Speech (29 June 1982), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
1980s

“Is it true what Contreras testified before the courts, that the president of the junta and later the president of the Republic was the direct head of DINA?
I don't remember, but it is not true. It is not true and if it was, I don't remember. Contreras liked to cajole, wrap around his boss. Contreras gave the orders. It was he who managed the institution.”

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Augusto Pinochet

Exchange between Judge Victor Montiglio and Pinochet (November 16, 2005), quoted in Heraldo Muñoz (2008) The Dictator's Shadow
2000s

“Power must be vested in the armed forces, since only they have the organization and the means to fight Marxism.”

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Augusto Pinochet

Clive Foss, The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption, London: Quercus Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1905204965, p. 187
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“I have a sour face. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.”

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Speech (24 April 1986), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
1980s

“This is not a dictadura [dictatorship/hard rule] but a dictablanda”

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soft rule
Speech (September 1983), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet." The Spanish word dura means tough, while blanda means soft.
1980s

“I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.”

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Augusto Pinochet

November 1998, during detention in London http://www.lanacion.cl/prontus_noticias/site/artic/20061210/pags/20061210221221.html
1990s

“Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it. I want that to be clear!”

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Speech (October 1981), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet." This expression is not original to Pinochet; it is also attributed to Inca Atahualpa in 1531. See Las Casas, Destruction of the Indies.
1980s

“The armed forces have acted today solely from the patriotic inspiration of saving the country from the tremendous chaos into which it was being plunged by the Marxist government of Salvador Allende.… The Junta will maintain judicial power and consultantship of the Comptroller. The Chambers will remain in recess until further orders. That is all.”

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Press conference (11 September 1973) Youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hbhb0ozRuM
1970s

“I am going to die. The person who succeeds me also would die. But elections, you won't have.”

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Speech (17 June 1975), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
1970s

“The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.”

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Statement (8 November 1998)
1990s

“Remark to reporters (September 1991) when asked about the burial of 125 political opponents in 108 graves. Quoted in Chile Under Pinochet (2000) by Mark Ensalaco”

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1990s

“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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Speech (26 May 1988), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
1980s

“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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Speech (17 April 1989), quoted in " Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet http://www.lanacion.cl/prontus_noticias/site/artic/20061210/pags/20061210221221.html" (2006-12-11) La Nación
1980s

“If Senator Kennedy is elected President of the United States, the government of Chile will take the necessary measures.”

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Speech (11 September 1979), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
1970s

“To whom are we going to ask to be forgiven? To the one who tried to kill us? To the one who tried to destroy our country? To whom? They are the ones who must ask to be forgiven for everything they did before September 11.”

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Comments at Mass (11 September 1994), quoted in Calvin Sims (1994-10-06) "Villain or Hero? Pinochet Is Still Viewed as Both in Chile" New York Times
1990s

“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.”

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Speech (25 October 1988), commenting on his defeat in a plebiscite to return to democracy. Quoted in Pamela Constable et al. (1991) A Nation of Enemies
1980s

“The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians.”

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Speech (24 April 1987), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
1980s

“Today, near the end of my days, I want to say that I harbor no rancor against anybody, that I love my fatherland above all and that I take political responsibility for everything that was done which had no other goal than making Chile greater and avoiding its disintegration.… I assume full political responsibility for what happened.”

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Birthday announcement (25 November 2006); " Pinochet Takes 'Political Responsibility' for Actions of Chilean Dictatorship http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/25/AR2006112500834.html" (26 November 2006) Washington Post
2000s

“The country is safe, because we have a good intelligence service.”

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Speech (September 1974), quoted in La Nación (2006-12-11) "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet" (The Immortal Sayings of Pinochet) http://www.lanacion.cl/prontus_noticias/site/artic/20061210/pags/20061210221221.html
1970s