North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
FIDEL CASTRONorth Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
FIDEL CASTROIn the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
FIDEL CASTRONothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
FIDEL CASTROThe societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
FIDEL CASTROI am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
FIDEL CASTROMore than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
FIDEL CASTROThis country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
FIDEL CASTROI have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
FIDEL CASTROThe Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
FIDEL CASTROWe need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.
FIDEL CASTROIf surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
FIDEL CASTROI find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
FIDEL CASTROI 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.
FIDEL CASTROThe truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.
FIDEL CASTRORevolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
FIDEL CASTROEveryone 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 CASTRO