Reality Quotes by Salvador Allende

Every country has its own reality and its own leaders, and the leaders act in accordance with their reality.

— Salvador Allende

If the U.S. is going to defend itself, why shouldn't we do the same? We only want to be treated equally, nothing more.

— Salvador Allende

I have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always take advantage of experience…

— Salvador Allende

People can come and see me, and I have the pleasure of being able to talk to them.

— Salvador Allende

I believe that every president wants to give everyone work but they can't; they want everyone to eat but they can't make it happen.…

— Salvador Allende

I have always said to workers that they have to work hard, to produce more and better. In Chile, we need to achieve an…

— Salvador Allende

I can't spend my whole day talking to people.

— Salvador Allende

Fidel Castro is a man with a great sense of self-criticism and respect for his political friends. He is not going to give me…

— Salvador Allende

It's much harder to bring about socialism through legal means, because there are so many possibilities for opposition.

— Salvador Allende

This is an instrument in the hands of the people for fighting the fascist saboteurs, because the Chilean armed forces are a guarantee of…

— Salvador Allende

The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism - a socialism that, owing to its…

— Salvador Allende

There can be leftist groups that have not matured politically.

— Salvador Allende