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.
FIDEL CASTRONo government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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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 am someone who’s been in politics for 43 years and I know what I’m doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
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It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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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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North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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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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Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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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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Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.
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