One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
FIDEL CASTROIf we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.
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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The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
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I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
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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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I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
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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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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.
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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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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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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
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