Autres citations de ce dictateur chilien qui en assassina, ou martyrisa, plus d'un/e (notamment Pablo Neruda):
"Rome a coupé la tête des chrétiens et ils ont continué à réapparaître d'une manière ou d'une autre. Quelque chose de similaire se produit avec les marxistes." / "Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists."
"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."
"La démocratie porte en elle le germe de sa propre destruction. Il y a un dicton selon lequel "Parfois la démocratie doit être baignée dans le sang pur qu'elle puisse continuer à être la démocratie." Heureusement, ce n'est pas notre cas. Il n'y a eu que quelques gouttes." / "Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood."
"My library is filled with UN condemnations."
"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."
"The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth."
"I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there."
"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."
"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."
"We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles."
"Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing." / "I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have."
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Quatre autres tyrans meurtriers sont cités ici:
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/wawa/blog/261121/quatre-tyrans-tres-meurtriers
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Fidel Castro (1926-2016) est cité ici:
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/wawa/blog/030423/nos-prostituees-sont-les-plus-eduquees-au-monde
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