Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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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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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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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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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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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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 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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It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
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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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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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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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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.
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The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
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