If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

To accomplish much you must first lose everything.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.

The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and only rare talents may create their own work. The rest become shameless hacks or are crushed.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

Let's liquidate all the atomic bases in Cuba and in the U.S. and we are in complete agreement with that.