I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
FIDEL CASTROI 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.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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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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The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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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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There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
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