One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.

The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.

I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.

What we consider is that the Venezuelan government is not a leftist government, has nothing of a leftist government. It is an oppressor, an oppressive government, it is a murderer - he murders them - the peasant fights in the region of Falcon, for example, where there are military advisers of the U.S.

We put no condition of any kind to the U.S., we don't want it to change its system, we don't want racial discrimination to cease in the U.S., we put no conditions to the establishment of relations.

The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, one notes a decline in collective enthusiasm due to the effect of a quantitative diminution in each of the elements that make up the mass. Work is paralyzed until it is reduced to an insignificant level. It is time to make a correction.

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.