“Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.”

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its Did I say socialism?

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.

I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.

All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.

I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it’s my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.

Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

God doesn’t seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.

The philosophy has always been pretty clean and straightforward, which is that if I see something that I like and I can see it’s value to the audience and it’s value to me then I’m going to take my shot at it regardless at the genre.

Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.

Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.