We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
FIDEL CASTROCapitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is – and I mean this seriously – the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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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 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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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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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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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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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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Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
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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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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.
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The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
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I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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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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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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If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
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I don’t think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It’s the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.
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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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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 talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?
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