I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
FIDEL CASTROI have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
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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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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
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The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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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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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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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.
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I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.
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The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.
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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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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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If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.
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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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I am someone who’s been in politics for 43 years and I know what I’m doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
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The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.
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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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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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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
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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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