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 CASTROThis country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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 am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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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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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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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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How can we help President Obama?
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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.
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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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I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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I am someone who’s been in politics for 43 years and I know what I’m doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
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Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
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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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