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.
FIDEL CASTRONo thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
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U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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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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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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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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Ideas do not need weapons.
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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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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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We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its Did I say socialism?
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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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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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I don’t think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It’s the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.
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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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