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 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.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
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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 promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
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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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A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital – which is the interest – returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.
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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.
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We 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.
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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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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 can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since it is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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