“Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.”

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since it is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.

If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

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.

The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.

Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.

There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.

When I set out to find my father, I was not being brave. I was acting out of fear or losing the only parent I ever had. They may want you to believe I was simple being brave, but anxiety makes more heroes than history would care to repeat.

All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.

Once I beat Gervonta Davis like I’ve been calling it, that’s going to be like history repeats itself with Sonny Liston and Muhammad Ali.

An endless, meaningless string of apologies signals a failure to change one’s own behavior. What matters is not whether the person was authentic or really meant it in those passionate expressions of remorse. All that counts is whether that person follows through so there is no repeat performance.

I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.