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.
FIDEL CASTROWe need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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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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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 greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since it is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.
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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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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
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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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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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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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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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Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
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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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The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.
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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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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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I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.
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