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.
FIDEL CASTROThe revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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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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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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