The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

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.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.

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

It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.

The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.

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

Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.

Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

I don't know that you can do an absurdist film and just have everybody embrace it in terms of filling out cards. I just don't think it happens. So you have to prepare an audience.

'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear; And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is like trying to breedcattle with all cows and no bulls.

If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.

To run with the majority during the race of life is to be mediocre all of the time and wrong most of the time.

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?