“In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.”

I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.

Forgive me for using the term ‘fat little brother’. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don’t you think? I’m doing this for the gentleman’s health.

The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.

North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!

Democracy’s my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba – free ideas, freedom religion belief.

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

Desire is no light thing.

When we look at women, we have to look at the significance of their work in a different way from the way we look at it with men.

So that it looks like the character has literally vanished. That’s the way you have to leave them.

We should do most anything to advance the animal rights cause.

In their great numbers, most people have, up to now,

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

My mother’s a pretty warm, open person.