Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
FIDEL CASTROI 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.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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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.
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Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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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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I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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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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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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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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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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We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
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I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.
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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.
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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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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.
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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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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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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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