“It is ideas that light up the world, it is ideas, and when I say ideas, I mean ideas that are just, ideas that can bring peace to the world, and put an end to the grave danger of war, or put an end to violence. That is why we talk about the battle of ideas.”
“The world moves forward and the World becomes globalized, we have already said that. I hope that the day shall come when all of humanity will be one single family and all the wealth, all the sciences, all the Technologies and all the resources will be for the benefit of all…”
“For super-developed societies, the problem is not growth but distribution, and not only distribution amongst themselves, but distribution among all of them. The sustainable growth we are talking about is impossible without a more just distribution among all countries.”
“While violence and war spread and reign in the world, Cuba and its people will rise up as defenders and symbols of the most human and genuine principles that must and can reign on this Earth.”
“[…] Do a better job dividing up the wealth of the world among all nations and within the nations; set up true solidarity among the peoples, that is the only way our dreams of today can become realities tomorrow.”
"It is high time for statesmen and politicians to calmly reflect on this. The belief that a social and economic order that has proven to be unsustainable can be forcibly imposed is really senseless."
“The theory of continuous growth from investment and consumption, applied by the most developed to the countries where the vast majority is poor, surrounded by luxuries and the wastefulness of a tiny minority of wealthy individuals, is not only humiliating but destructive, too. That pillage, and its disastrous consequences, is the cause of peoples’ growing rebelliousness, even though very few are aware of the history behind the events.”