Great Throughts Treasury

"If your heart vibrate looking Resist oppression then silence is a form of treason because"

"In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm."

"Is it enough to create new conditions? Can we build a new society by man Old? Or do we need to change also human."

"In the future individualism ought to be the efficient utilization of the whole individual for the absolute benefit of a collectivity."

"It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies."

"Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that ancient melancholy of smoke, unifying everything with its grayish monotones, a perfect coupling with the gray mountain days."

"It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness."

"It is not just a simple game, it is a weapon of the revolution."

"Let the world change you and you can change the world."

"Many people were killed in the long road to victory."

"Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers."

"Much more definitive and much more lasting than all the gold that one can accumulate is the gratitude of a people."

"Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes."

"Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love."

"One cannot be sure that there is nothing live for but if he is ready to die in the process."

"One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness."

"Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism, and a battle hymn for the people's unity against the great enemy of mankind: the United States of America. Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, may have reached some receptive ear, that another hand may be extended to wield our weapons, and that other men be ready to intone our funeral dirge with the staccato singing of the machine guns and new battle cries of war and victory."

"Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace."

"Revolution strong as steel, red Kaljmr, remain Kasindian, deep Khibna the brutal to the homeland."

"Perhaps one day tired of circling the world I'll return to Argentina and settle in the Andean lakes if not indefinitely then at least for a pause while I shift from one understanding of the world to another."

"Our universities produced lawyers and doctors for the old social system, but did not create enough agricultural extension teachers, agronomists, chemists, or physicists. In fact, we do not even have mathematicians."

"Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world."

"Revolutionaries filling the world banging for the world to not sleep weighed on the bodies of the poor."

"Revolution, in history, is like the doctor assisting at the birth of a new life, who will not use forceps unless necessary, but who will use them unhesitatingly every time labor requires them. It is a labor bringing the hope of a better life to the enslaved and exploited masses."

"The bike struggled showing signs it was feeling the strain especially in the bodywork which we constantly had to fix with Alberto's favored spare part - wire."

"The best form of saying is being."

"Technology which enables us to control the nature remember that the revolution is important that each of us individually is important, above all else, be able always a sense of injustice suffered by any person whatever the size of this injustice and whatever the place This man this is the most beautiful characterized by revolutionary goodbye forever, O my children, although I still hope to see you again to all of you a great big kiss and a large bosom large Papa."

"The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone."

"The feeling of revolt will grow stronger every day among the peoples subjected to various degrees of exploitation, and they will take up arms to gain by force the rights which reason alone has not won them."

"The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination."

"The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated."

"The guerrilla fighter needs full help from the people of the area. This is an indispensable condition."

"The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless."

"The government of the United States is not the champion of freedom, but rather the perpetrator of exploitation and oppression against the peoples of the world and against a large part of its own population."

"The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth."

"The International Monetary Fund is the watchdog of the dollar in the capitalist camp."

"The guerrilla is supported by the peasant and worker masses of the region and of the whole territory in which it acts. Without these prerequisites, guerrilla warfare is not possible."

"The North American government used the quota system on imports of Cuban sugar not only to protect her own sugar industry, as demanded by her own producers, but also to make possible the unrestricted introduction into our country of North American manufactured goods."

"The natural advantages of the cultivation of sugar in Cuba are obvious, but the predominant fact is that Cuba was developed as a sugar factory of the United States."

"The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day."

"The only way to solve the problems now besetting mankind is to eliminate completely the exploitation of dependent countries by developed capitalist countries, with all the consequences that this implies."

"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."

"The road is dark and are you if you did not burn and I it would illuminate the road."

"The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound down by their practical world view, are able to place those members of the disintegrating tribes they may have seen in their travels among these once-living walls, unaware of the moral distance separating them, since only the semi-indigenous spirit of the South American can grasp the subtle differences."

"The task of educating and feeding youngsters, the task of educating the army, the task of distributing the lands of the former absentee landlords to those who laboured every day upon that same land without receiving its benefits, are accomplishments of social medicine."

"The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It was - I don't know how to explain it - as if everything solid melted away into the ether, eliminating all individuality and absorbing us, rigid, into the immense darkness. Not a single cloud to lend perspective to the space blocked any portion of the starry sky."

"The university cannot be an ivory tower, far away from the society, removed from the practical accomplishments of the Revolution. If such an attitude is maintained, the university will continue giving our society lawyers that we do not need."

"The university, vanguard of our struggling people, cannot become a backward element, but it would become so if the university did not incorporate itself into the great plans of the Revolution."

"The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation."

"The vedadero revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love."