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 CASTROSovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.
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I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba’s political crisis…; discovering Marxism…was like finding a map in the forest.
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Quality 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.
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Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.
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It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
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Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
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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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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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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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