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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.

Fidel Castro

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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Ideas Serious System World
The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
FIDEL CASTRO

Competition Greatness Ignorance
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
FIDEL CASTRO

Bed Past Revolution Rose Struggle
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Country End Factory Industry Interest Policy Price Smart
We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its Did I say socialism?
FIDEL CASTRO

Death Social Victim
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
FIDEL CASTRO

Capitalism Competition Finding Hypocrisy
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Assurance Drive Government Interest Myself Personal Politics
U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.
FIDEL CASTRO

Leadership Safety Thinking
I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.
FIDEL CASTRO

Courage Experience Man Myself Personality See
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

Doubt Elegant Myself Politics Truth
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
If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
FIDEL CASTRO

Myself People Religion Social Vision
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
It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
FIDEL CASTRO

Faith Inspirational Planning Small Yourself
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Communalism Foreign Myself Power
The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.
FIDEL CASTRO

Poor Rich Truth

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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