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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

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

Clothing Culture Food Knowledge Life
The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
FIDEL CASTRO

Compare Existence Live Ourselves
Democracy’s my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba – free ideas, freedom religion belief.
FIDEL CASTRO

Agreement Belief Communalism Democracy Freedom Ideas Religion
Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.
FIDEL CASTRO

Age Mindset Myself People Poet
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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Benefit Company People Revenue
North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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Country Humanity Understand
I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
FIDEL CASTRO

Acceptance Aspiration Cheif Commander State
I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
FIDEL CASTRO

Believe Relative Young
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

People Plain Possible Strong
Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.
FIDEL CASTRO

Repeat Revolution Virtue
Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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Destiny Man Production Time
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Agreement Fall Fear Throw
This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
FIDEL CASTRO

Country Heaven Hell Sense Spiritual Survive
Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
FIDEL CASTRO

Greatness Ideas Mass Weapon
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
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Action Beginning Faith Man Planning Revolution Small
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

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