I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
FIDEL CASTROMen do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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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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Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
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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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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.
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How can we help President Obama?
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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 find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.
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