One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
FIDEL CASTROThe Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
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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.
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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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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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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
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There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?
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Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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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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The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
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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.
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Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
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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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The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.
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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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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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I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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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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Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.
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I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it’s my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.
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