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Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.

Fidel Castro

Democracy’s my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba – free ideas, freedom religion belief.
FIDEL CASTRO

Agreement Belief Communalism Democracy Freedom Ideas Religion
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Familiar Ideas Myself Politics Reason Revolution Symbol
We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its Did I say socialism?
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Death Social Victim
Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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Greatness Ideas Mass Weapon
We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
FIDEL CASTRO

Ourselves Politician Politics
Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!
FIDEL CASTRO

End Ideas Important Revolution Sentiment Virtue Warfare
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Blame Communalism Myself Oppression Thinking
If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.
FIDEL CASTRO

Change Medicine Religious Social Wonderful
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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Myself People Religion Social Vision
One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
FIDEL CASTRO

Belief Greatness Ourselves Prostitute
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Economics Hungry Kill Man Trial War
How can we help President Obama?
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Help President
I 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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Courage Experience Man Myself Personality See
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Ideas Serious System World
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 CASTRO

Agreement Fall Fear Throw
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
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Cleaning Growth Material Planet Resource Society
This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
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Country Heaven Hell Sense Spiritual Survive
There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
FIDEL CASTRO

Attendance Doctor Enough Planet
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Clothing Culture Food Knowledge Life
All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
FIDEL CASTRO

Criticism Revolution
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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Communism Economy Planning Representation
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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Age Capitalism Existence Social System Thinking War
I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
FIDEL CASTRO

Follow Victim
North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
FIDEL CASTRO

Country Humanity Understand
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
FIDEL CASTRO

Death Future Past Revolution Struggle
The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
FIDEL CASTRO

Responsibility Revolution
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Doubt Elegant Myself Politics Truth

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