In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.

The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way moved by concepts related to the interests of the family or of society...Just when science and technology are making incredible advances in all fields, they resort to technology to suppress revolutions and ask the help of science to prevent population growth. In short, the peoples are not to make revolutions, and women are not to give birth. This sums up the philosophy of imperialism.