On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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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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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Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.
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Democracy’s my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba – free ideas, freedom religion belief.
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I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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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 am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.
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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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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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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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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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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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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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