The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
FIDEL CASTROI find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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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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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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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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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.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba’s political crisis…; discovering Marxism…was like finding a map in the forest.
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