There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.

If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.

There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.

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

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.

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