[Before cutting down the tree, they knew they were going to make a boat. Working, we transform the world. Transforming the world, we transform ourselves.]

[The tree belongs to the natural world. The boat belongs to the world of culture.]

[A society without exploiters and the exploited is one where there are no privileges based on whether you work with a pen or with your hands. Everyone is a worker in service of the good of others").

[A new society doesn't create itself overnight. It is important to first have its form in your head, the same way they had an idea of the boat before cutting down the tree.]

[Everyone has something to learn. Pedro knows how to cultivate cacao. Antonio knows how to print a journal. Each one doesn't have the knowledge of the other. Both the cultivation of cacao and printing of journals are important practices for national reconstruction.]

[The human body is conscious and working involves the whole body - using one's hands involves thinking. This makes it erroneous to separate manual and intellectual labour. Rural and factory workers are intellectuals also. Only in societies that look down on using the hands for practical activities are cacao cultivation and journal printing seen as inferior.]

[Before literacy, we are already 'reading' the world: we look at the sky and the colour of the clouds to anticipate whether it will rain and the amount of precipitation.]

[Culture is: the instruments used by the people to produce; the form of understanding and expressing; the drum; the movement of bodies in rhythm to the drums.]