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I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel.
We do not have elections. But the great majority of the Cuban people supports its government.
If we had to kneel in order to live in peace, [ U.S. government] will have to kill us before.
Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another.
Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.
The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.
Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace.
It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.
We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.
If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.
Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.
The fundamental principle is that no battle, combat, or skirmish is to be fought unless it will be won.
Let's liquidate all the atomic bases in Cuba and in the U.S. and we are in complete agreement with that.
The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.
The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.
I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.
In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.
Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.
The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation
The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day
Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm.
It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.
We have taken plants from the capitalist system where the most important thing was to produce, especially in Cuba.
I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.
There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.
I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.
Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.
To execute a man we don't need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it's necessary to execute him. It's that simple.
When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.
The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.
Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth
Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him.
We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.
You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.
If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his truths.
The guerrilla band is not to be considered inferior to the army against which it fights simply because it is inferior in fire power.
The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].
The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.
We are not the ones who create revolutions. It is the imperialist system and its allies, internal allies, the ones who create revolution.
I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.
Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize.
While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America.
Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.