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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.

Fidel Castro

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
FIDEL CASTRO

Benefit Company People Revenue
Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
FIDEL CASTRO

Destiny Man Production Time
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

Dinner Invitation Myself Vote Way
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
I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
FIDEL CASTRO

Cry Mom Promise
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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Culture Man Manifestation Science
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

Change Medicine Religious Social Wonderful
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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Communism Economy Planning Representation
So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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Communalism Organizatiom
Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
FIDEL CASTRO

Cleaning Education Prostitute World
We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
FIDEL CASTRO

Exploit Revolution Theory
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Hungry Ignorance Wealth Weapon
Ideas do not need weapons.
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Ideas One Liner Weapon
I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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Myself Reach Short Speech Talk
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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Ideas Serious System World
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

Life Live Man Moments Thinking Weakness

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 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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