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Augusto Pinochet: 42 cytaty3 Polubienia

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„Ja miałbym kogoś prosić o wybaczenie? Kogo? To oni, komuniści, powinni mnie prosić o wybaczenie. Przecież o mało mnie nie zabili w zamachu 1986!”

Augusto Pinochet

Źródło: wywiad w TV Miami 22 w 2003

„Jestem demokratą, ale na swój sposób.”

Augusto Pinochet

„Moja biblioteka jest pełna wyrazów potępienia przez ONZ.”

Augusto Pinochet

„Rządy Pinocheta były jednym z najtrudniejszych okresów w historii Chile, nasze myśli są dziś z ofiarami jego dyktatury oraz ich rodzinami.”

Augusto Pinochet

Źródło: oświadczenie rzecznika Białego Domu, USA

„Ja umrę, mój następca umrze, a w Chile nigdy nie będzie żadnych wyborów.”

Augusto Pinochet

Źródło: Artur Domosławski, Gorączka latynoamerykańska, wyd. Świat Książki, Warszawa 2010, s. 174.

„Jestem generałem ubogich.”

Augusto Pinochet

Augusto Pinochet Cytaty o książkach

„W czasie przesłuchań podwładni Pinocheta stosowali nieludzkie tortury, o których dziennikarze nie mieli pojęcia: prąd elektryczny na genitalia, bicie mokrymi workami, zanurzanie w beczkach z ekskrementami, wyrywanie paznokci i palenie włosów. Tym, którzy brali udział w akcjach oporu, ucinano palce, ramiona, dłonie, uszy, genitalia, wyłupywano oczy.”

Augusto Pinochet

relacja świadka.
O Augusto Pinochecie
Źródło: „Le Monde”, wrzesień 1973, cyt. za: Artur Domosławski, Gorączka latynoamerykańska, wyd. Świat Książki, Warszawa 2010, s. 120.

„W moim kraju nawet liść na drzewie nie drży bez mojej wiedzy.”

Augusto Pinochet

Źródło: Artur Domosławski, Gorączka latynoamerykańska, wyd. Świat Książki, Warszawa 2010, s. 144.

„Panowie jesteście duchownymi i możecie sobie pozwolić na luksus bycia litościwymi, ja jestem żołnierzem i prezydentem całego narodu chilijskiego, narodu zaatakowanego przez bakcyl komunizmu, który trzeba wyrwać z korzeniami, a marksistów i komunistów trzeba torturować, bo inaczej nie śpiewają.”

Augusto Pinochet

do biskupów – luterańskiego Helmuta Ericha Waltera Frenza i katolickiego Fernande Aritzia, którzy przynieśli protest przeciwko masowym i zinstytucjonalizowanym torturom.
Źródło: Artur Domosławski, Gorączka latynoamerykańska, wyd. Świat Książki, Warszawa 2010, s. 145.

„Nie można jeszcze dokładnie zorientować się w liczbie egzekucji dokonanych w Santiago i całym kraju… Oceny obserwatorów można jedynie przeciwstawić śmiechu wartym oficjalnym komunikatom junty Pinocheta.”

Augusto Pinochet

O Augusto Pinochecie
Źródło: „Le Figaro”, wrzesień 1973, cyt. za: Artur Domosławski, Gorączka latynoamerykańska, wyd. Świat Książki, Warszawa 2010, s. 120.

Augusto Pinochet cytaty

„Ci sami, którzy są odpowiedzialni za najbardziej brutalne systemy ucisku, jakie pamięta ludzkość, którzy głosili narodom złowieszczą ideologię marksistowskiego socjalizmu, dziś roszczą sobie prawo do bycia moimi sędziami.”

Augusto Pinochet

Źródło: w liście otwartym do Chilijczyków, 27 grudnia 1998

„Dziś, gdy zbliżam się do końca moich dni, chcę powiedzieć jasno, że nie żywię do nikogo urazy i że kocham moją ojczyznę ponad wszystko.”

Augusto Pinochet

25 listopada 2006, dwa tygodnie przed śmiercią.

„Pinochet wystartował sam, ale przybiegł drugi.”

Augusto Pinochet

żart, znany w Chile o Pinochecie, dotyczący referendum prezydenckiego przeprowadzonego w 1988.
O Augusto Pinochecie

„Śmierć Pinocheta powinna stanowić dla rządów wszystkich państw nauczkę, że zbrodniarzy należy sądzić niezwłocznie, żeby nie uniknęli sprawiedliwości.”

Augusto Pinochet

Źródło: oświadczenie Amnesty International, odnoszące się do okresu po 1990

Augusto Pinochet: Cytaty po angielsku

“We practically wiped this nation clean of Marxists.”

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

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

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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.”

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Speech (July 1987), 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.”

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Statement (8 November 1998)
1990s

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

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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.”

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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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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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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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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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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