The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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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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Democracy’s my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba – free ideas, freedom religion belief.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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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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Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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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 believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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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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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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Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
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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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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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