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 CASTROThe first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
-
-
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
FIDEL CASTRO -
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!
FIDEL CASTRO -
One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
FIDEL CASTRO -
I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
FIDEL CASTRO -
There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
FIDEL CASTRO -
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.
FIDEL CASTRO -
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.
FIDEL CASTRO -
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
FIDEL CASTRO -
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
FIDEL CASTRO -
I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
FIDEL CASTRO -
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.
FIDEL CASTRO -
The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
FIDEL CASTRO -
The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
FIDEL CASTRO -
Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
FIDEL CASTRO -
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.
FIDEL CASTRO






