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If 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.

Fidel Castro

We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
FIDEL CASTRO

Ourselves Politician Politics
Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
FIDEL CASTRO

Greatness Ideas Mass Weapon
It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
FIDEL CASTRO

Faith Inspirational Planning Small Yourself
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
FIDEL CASTRO

Capacity Capital Moral Poverty Problem Solve
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
FIDEL CASTRO

Extraordinary God Ideas Myself
One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
FIDEL CASTRO

Belief Greatness Ourselves Prostitute
The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
FIDEL CASTRO

Modeling Ourselves Work
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
FIDEL CASTRO

Benefit Company People Revenue
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
FIDEL CASTRO

Capitalism Competition Finding Hypocrisy
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Country End Factory Industry Interest Policy Price Smart
There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
FIDEL CASTRO

Attendance Doctor Enough Planet
I don’t think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It’s the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.
FIDEL CASTRO

Age Capitalism Existence Social System Thinking War
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Courage Experience Man Myself Personality See
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Doubt Elegant Myself Politics Truth
How can we help President Obama?
FIDEL CASTRO

Help President
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.
FIDEL CASTRO

Communalism Foreign Myself Power

If 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.

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If 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.

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