The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
FIDEL CASTROWe are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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I don’t think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It’s the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.
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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.
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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 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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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.
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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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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.
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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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