Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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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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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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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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Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!
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I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.
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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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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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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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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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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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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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