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.
FIDEL CASTRONo government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
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I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.
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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 promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
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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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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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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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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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