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.
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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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Forgive me for using the term ‘fat little brother’. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don’t you think? I’m doing this for the gentleman’s health.
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My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.
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If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
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There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?
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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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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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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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We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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