Top 70 Evo Morales Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.”

— Evo Morales

2. “Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.”

— Evo Morales

3. “If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system.”

— Evo Morales

4. “We see how capitalism is destroying Mother Earth. I remain convinced that the Earth can exist without man but man cannot live without the Earth.”

— Evo Morales

5. “We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.”

— Evo Morales

6. “I’m still convinced. We all fight for freedom, but the foundation of freedom is equality and justice. And we are all on the road.”

— Evo Morales

7. “Lithium is like a beautiful lady, very much sought and pursued, especially in Bolivia. There is data indicating Bolivia has the largest reserves of lithium in the world.”

— Evo Morales

8. “Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.”

— Evo Morales

9. “I don’t debate with liars.”

— Evo Morales

10. “Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.”

— Evo Morales

11. “With our goddess, the Pachamama, and it is not possible to continue having a monopoly of religious faith, only Catholic. We have therefore adopted the new constitution as a secular state where all religious beliefs will be respected.”

— Evo Morales

12. “This is a coca leaf. This is not cocaine. This represents the culture of indigenous people of the Andean region.”

— Evo Morales

13. “The chicken that we eat is chock-full of feminine hormones. So, when men eat these chickens, they deviate from themselves as men.”

— Evo Morales

14. “In Bolivia there are Catholic, Evangelical, Methodist, Baptist churches, and so on. In Bolivia there are indigenous religious beliefs like the rite of Pachamama Mother Earth, which shows us that Mother Earth is our life, we are born out of the Earth we live on the Earth and return to the Earth.”

— Evo Morales

15. “Some take advantage of natural resources to put the capital in the hands of the few, while some use these natural resources to benefit the majority, as we do in Bolivia.”

— Evo Morales

16. “In Bolivia, the middle class, intellectuals and the self-employed are proud of their Indian roots. Unfortunately, some oligarchic groups continue to treat us as being inferior.”

— Evo Morales

17. “Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn’t been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.”

— Evo Morales

18. “The way I see it, it’s impossible to change things without encountering resistance.”

— Evo Morales

19. “For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.”

— Evo Morales

20. “The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia but worldwide. We need to have bilateral relations characterized by mutual respect.”

— Evo Morales

21. “Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don’t want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.”

— Evo Morales

22. “Venezuela’s oil is unimportant for Bolivia. We are not dependent on Venezuela. We complement each other. Venezuela shares its wealth with other countries, but that doesn’t make us subordinate.”

— Evo Morales

23. “Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.”

— Evo Morales

24. “I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration – but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.”

— Evo Morales

25. “We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.”

— Evo Morales

26. “The United States is using its war on drugs as an excuse to expand its control over Latin America.”

— Evo Morales

27. “Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way of tracking down the drug traffickers.”

— Evo Morales

28. “The 21st of December marks the end of the time and the beginning of no-time.”

— Evo Morales

29. “Chile needs Bolivian natural resources and Bolivia needs access to the sea. Under those circumstances, it must be possible to find a solution in the interest of both countries.”

— Evo Morales

30. “The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.”

— Evo Morales

31. “Baldness that appears to be normal is a disease in Europe, almost all of them are bald, and that is because of the things they eat; while among the indigenous peoples there are no bald people, because we eat other things.”

— Evo Morales

32. “The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of ‘living well’ instead of wanting to ‘live better’ by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.”

— Evo Morales

33. “All of Africa’s resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible.”

— Evo Morales

34. “Why communitarian socialism? Now not only do we have the pursuit of happiness for man, as a government, as a program or as our principles. But as well to live in harmony with Mother Earth.”

— Evo Morales

35. “The capitalist system only allows us to heap up waste. I would like to propose that the trillions of money earmarked for war should be channeled to make good the damage to the environment, to make reparations to the earth.”

— Evo Morales

36. “We stand for global security and so we take care of everyone’s life.”

— Evo Morales

37. “Geopolitical interests are behind the so-called war on drugs and terrorism.”

— Evo Morales

38. “What unites Bolivia with Venezuela is the concept of the integration of South America. This is the old dream of a great fatherland, a dream that existed even before the Spanish conquest, and Simon Bolivar fought for it later on.”

— Evo Morales

39. “Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.”

— Evo Morales

40. “If governments do not ensure that, the peoples through their own efforts will ensure these changes, what we call communitarian socialism.”

— Evo Morales

41. “I’m just the democratic voice of Bolivia.”

— Evo Morales

42. “Playing sports has always been my greatest pleasure. I don’t smoke, I hardly drink alcohol. Sports helped get me into the presidential palace. My first position in the union was that of sports secretary.”

— Evo Morales

43. “Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It’s brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled industrialization of the resources of the Planet Earth.”

— Evo Morales

44. “To talk only about national security, national defense, means to be selfish, ambitious. It is discrimination, isolation. “It is just me. What do I care about others?””

— Evo Morales

45. “We nationalize hydrocarbons, so now the economy is improving and the fight against poverty is also improving in Bolivia.”

— Evo Morales

46. “Capitalism has only hurt Latin America. There are social democrats and others who are marching more in the direction of equality, whether you call them socialists or communists.”

— Evo Morales

47. “In Bolivia, we want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together again.”

— Evo Morales

48. “With Bolivia, I had hope that a discriminated African-American, with another discriminated indigenous peasant leader, I hoped that together we could work for justice and equality. Not only for just two countries, Bolivia and USA, but for equality around the world.”

— Evo Morales

49. “There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.”

— Evo Morales

50. “Bolivia historically made and still makes a living from natural resources. Before it was tin, but also silver, gold, and other minerals were plundered by many foreign countries. Europe after the United States.”

— Evo Morales