"A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past."

"How can we help President Obama?"

"Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away."

"I "think "that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened."

"I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes."

"I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba."

"Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!"

"Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour."

"Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism."

"I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action."

"The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist."

"None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers."

"The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization."

"The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty."

"If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving."

"Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable."

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

"The Arab population of Palestine are victims of genocidal actions; their lands are confiscated or deprived of water supplies in the semi-desert areas, and their homes are destroyed with heavy wrecking equipment."

"I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth."

"We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system."

"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity."

"There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same."

"Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation."

"Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war."

"I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement."

"Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me."

"At times, I've referred to Christ's miracles, and have said, 'Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.'"

"Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21."

"Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that."

"We do not exploit our dolphins for profit."

"What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival."

"My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious."

"It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants."

"I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have."

"I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded."

"The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change."

"Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911."

"The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other."

"The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated."

"Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated."

"I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map."

"The prestige of the international financial institutions rates less than zero."

"The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country."

"Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms."

"Senator McCain is Israel's most unconditional ally in Mossad's machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations."

"England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century."

"No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable."

"Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy."

"During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country."

"There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust."