Augusto Pinochet citáty
Augusto Pinochet
Datum narození: 25. listopad 1915
Datum úmrtí: 10. prosinec 2006
Generál Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte byl vůdce chilské pravicové vojenské junty a později i prezident, vládnoucí v Chile v letech 1973 až 1990. Protože od počátku své vlády ovládal moc zákonodárnou a výkonnou, lze jej označit za diktátora.
Citáty Augusto Pinochet
„Power must be vested in the armed forces, since only they have the organization and the means to fight Marxism.“
— Augusto Pinochet
Attributed, Clive Foss, The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption, London: Quercus Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1905204965, p. 187
„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.“
— Augusto Pinochet
2000s, Exchange between Judge Victor Montiglio and Pinochet (November 16, 2005), quoted in Heraldo Muñoz (2008) The Dictator's Shadow
„I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.“
— Augusto Pinochet
1980s, Speech (29 June 1982), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
„Tell my friends to get me out of here.“
— Augusto Pinochet
1990s, October 27, 1998, nine days after being arrested in London, quoted in Heraldo Muñoz (2008) The Dictator's Shadow
„I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.“
— Augusto Pinochet
1980s, Speech (July 1987), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
„The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.“
— Augusto Pinochet
1990s, Speech (21 September 1995), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
„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
1980s, 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"
„My library is filled with UN condemnations.“
— Augusto Pinochet
1980s, Speech (26 December 1986), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
„Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.“
— Augusto Pinochet
1990s, Speech (December 31, 1995), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
„Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.“
— Augusto Pinochet
1990s, Speech (10 November 1995), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
„We practically wiped this nation clean of Marxists.“
— Augusto Pinochet
1980s, Speech (February 23, 1988), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
„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.“
— Augusto Pinochet
1990s, Statement (8 November 1998)
