We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
FIDEL CASTROEveryone 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.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
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There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?
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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.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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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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A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital – which is the interest – returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.
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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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Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is – and I mean this seriously – the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.
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I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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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!
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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