Frases de Augusto Pinochet

„Não tenho de pedir perdão a ninguém.“

—  Augusto Pinochet

„Mais democracia do que a que praticamos, creio que não existe em outra parte do mundo.“

—  Augusto Pinochet

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

—  Augusto Pinochet

Clive Foss, The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption, London: Quercus Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1905204965, p. 187
Attributed

„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

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

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

—  Augusto Pinochet

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

„Tell my friends to get me out of here.“

—  Augusto Pinochet

October 27, 1998, nine days after being arrested in London, quoted in Heraldo Muñoz (2008) The Dictator's Shadow
1990s

„I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.“

—  Augusto Pinochet

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

„The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.“

—  Augusto Pinochet

Speech (21 September 1995), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
1990s

„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

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

„My library is filled with UN condemnations.“

—  Augusto Pinochet

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

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

—  Augusto Pinochet

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

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

—  Augusto Pinochet

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

„We practically wiped this nation clean of Marxists.“

—  Augusto Pinochet

Speech (February 23, 1988), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
1980s

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

—  Augusto Pinochet

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

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

—  Augusto Pinochet

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

„I have a sour face. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.“

—  Augusto Pinochet

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

„I have lived with my conscience and my own memories for over quarter of a century since the events of 1973.… These are not easy reflections for me. But I am at peace with myself, and with the Chilean people, about what happened. I am clear in my mind that the return to Chile of true democracy, and from that the true freedom to which all individual people are entitled, could not have been achieved without the removal of the Marxist government.“

—  Augusto Pinochet

Statement (8 November 1998)
1990s

„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

Statement (8 November 1998)
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.“

—  Augusto Pinochet

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