I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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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Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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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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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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North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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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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Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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