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 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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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 Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
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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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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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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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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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How can we help President Obama?
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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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Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.
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Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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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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I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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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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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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A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital – which is the interest – returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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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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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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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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U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.
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Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
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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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