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.
FIDEL CASTROWe have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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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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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.
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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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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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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 nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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How can we help President Obama?
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I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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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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If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
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We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
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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 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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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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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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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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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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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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