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 CASTROI am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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Ideas do not need weapons.
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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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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.
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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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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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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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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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Democracy’s my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba – free ideas, freedom religion belief.
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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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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.
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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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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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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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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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