If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
FIDEL CASTROMen do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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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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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba’s political crisis…; discovering Marxism…was like finding a map in the forest.
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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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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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Ideas do not need weapons.
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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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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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
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I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
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Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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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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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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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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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 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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We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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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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If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
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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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