If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.
FIDEL CASTROIf we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.
FIDEL CASTROI never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
FIDEL CASTROI believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
FIDEL CASTROI find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
FIDEL CASTROU.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.
FIDEL CASTRONorth Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
FIDEL CASTROIdeas do not need weapons.
FIDEL CASTROThe Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
FIDEL CASTROI propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.
FIDEL CASTRODemocracy’s my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba – free ideas, freedom religion belief.
FIDEL CASTROI was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba’s political crisis…; discovering Marxism…was like finding a map in the forest.
FIDEL CASTROI do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.
FIDEL CASTROGood athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
FIDEL CASTROThere is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
FIDEL CASTROWe have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
FIDEL CASTROThe duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
FIDEL CASTRO