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Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

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.

The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.

I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

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.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

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.

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

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

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.

We are political animals, as, not without reason, affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity's thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises, according to reports, of which only 31 have been preserved.

Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

For revolutionary Cubans, to cooperate with other poor and exploited peoples has always been a political principle and a duty towards humanity.

Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.

Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.

When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.

The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn't be admissible.

The United States never stopped conspiring against the Arab world, which holds the largest oil reserves on the planet.

The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.

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

Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

The traditional stand adopted by the Cuban Revolution, which was always opposed to any action that could jeopardize the life of civilians, is well known.

The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Knowledge is power.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.