"(...) we must strive for peace and we must strive for disarmament, because one fifth of what the world is spending in weapons could be used to promote development."
“Today we should fight off the risk of unipolar hegemonism and work for the only viable, endurable and acceptable way to survive, that is, for a multilateral world to prevail where peace, freedom, development and progress can be realized by all.”.
“We are not in favour of war, but in favour of peace among all the peoples.”
“(…) saving peace with dignity, with independence and without a war is the cornerstone of the struggle that we should wage together for a truly just world of free peoples.”.
“We want a peace which benefits to an equal degree the great and the small, the powerful and the weak, which covers all spheres in the world and reaches all of its citizens.”
"El mundo será conquistado por las ideas y no por la fuerza, cuyo poder para sojuzgar y dominar a la humanidad será cada vez menor. Sólo la paz y la cooperación entre los pueblos serán capaces de preservar a la humanidad de la muerte con que la amenazan por la vía del saqueo, la explotación, las guerras y la destrucción de las condiciones de vida del planeta."
"Cuba is no enemy to peace, nor is it reluctant to exchanges or cooperation between countries with different political systems, but it has been and will be uncompromising in its defense of its principles.".
"The worst crime that could be committed now in Cuba, would be a crime against the peace. The thing that nobody in Cuba could forgive now would be if someone conspired against the peace".
"Perhaps the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States turns into what should be and hemispheric political organization wit
“I believe that all peoples have the right to peace and enjoy all the goods and natural resources of the planet. What is currently going on with peoples in many countries of Africa, where there are millions of emaciated children, women and men out of lack of food, water and medicines is a shame”.