“I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.”

No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.

We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.

The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

Give us thyself, that we may see The Father and the Son, by thee.

The more I see of men the more I like dogs.

But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.

I’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been?

See, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp!