Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

When I die, I’m gonna leave my body to science fiction.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

He would make a lovely corpse.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn’t speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish’d from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish’d from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

An unused life is an early death.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.