We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know this, I see it printed in the night sky that I, eclectic dissembler of doctrine and psychoanalyst of dogma, howling like one possessed, will assault the barricades or the trenches , will take my bloodstained weapon, and consumed with fury, slaughter any enemy who falls into my hands.

Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm.

A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.

The guerrilla band is not to be considered inferior to the army against which it fights simply because it is inferior in fire power.

Given the prevailing lack of discipline, it would have been impossible to use Congolese machine-gunners to defend the base from air attack: they did not know how to handle their weapons and did not want to learn.

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.