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.
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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Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.
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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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Everyone 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.
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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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Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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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.
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The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
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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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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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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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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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