My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.
FIDEL CASTRORevolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
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I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital – which is the interest – returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.
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There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
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Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!
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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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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.
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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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I don’t think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It’s the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.
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The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
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The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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Forgive me for using the term ‘fat little brother’. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don’t you think? I’m doing this for the gentleman’s health.
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We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.
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I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
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I 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.
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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.
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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
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