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 CASTROIf people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it’s my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.
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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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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
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I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.
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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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I 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.
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Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
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The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.
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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.
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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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