All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.

There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution

This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.

If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

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

I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

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

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

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

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

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