Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.

Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.

Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.