Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
FIDEL CASTROIdeas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
FIDEL CASTROA revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
FIDEL CASTROThere 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.
FIDEL CASTROQuality 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.
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.
FIDEL CASTROI 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 CASTROIf Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
FIDEL CASTROToday, the entire country is an immense University.
FIDEL CASTROI have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
FIDEL CASTROI find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
FIDEL CASTROThere is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
FIDEL CASTROThe revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
FIDEL CASTROI began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
FIDEL CASTROThe 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.
FIDEL CASTROHow can we help President Obama?
FIDEL CASTROI 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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