If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.
FIDEL CASTROOn birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
-
-
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
FIDEL CASTRO -
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
FIDEL CASTRO -
I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.
FIDEL CASTRO -
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 CASTRO -
I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.
FIDEL CASTRO -
Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
FIDEL CASTRO -
Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.
FIDEL CASTRO -
Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
FIDEL CASTRO -
The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.
FIDEL CASTRO -
Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
FIDEL CASTRO -
I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
FIDEL CASTRO -
Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
FIDEL CASTRO -
If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
FIDEL CASTRO -
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
FIDEL CASTRO -
North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
FIDEL CASTRO