Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
FIDEL CASTRONorth Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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Forgive me for using the term ‘fat little brother’. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don’t you think? I’m doing this for the gentleman’s health.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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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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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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We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.
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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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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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We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its Did I say socialism?
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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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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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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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