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

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

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.

Ideas do not need weapons.

I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.

Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.

In America, it was decided to attempt the production of atomic bombs with an effort that would constitute a large part of the collective American war effort.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.