“Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.”

“Damn it! How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?”

“Simon Bolivar, when history led him - and as Karl Marx said, men can make history, but only as far as history allows us to do so - when history took Bolivar and made him the leader of the independence process in Venezuela, he made that process revolutionary.”

“Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.”

“The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander von] Humboldt, since his work was more useful for our people than the work of all conquerors.”

“Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction”

“Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?”

“We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development.”