I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
FIDEL CASTROOne of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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Ideas do not need weapons.
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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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Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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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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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
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I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.
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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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North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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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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There 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.
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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 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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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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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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