I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
FIDEL CASTROI 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.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since it is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.
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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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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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It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
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Ideas do not need weapons.
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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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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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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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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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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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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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