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.
FIDEL CASTROThis country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
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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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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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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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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.
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If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.
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Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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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.
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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
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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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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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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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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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