There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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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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!
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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 first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.
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How can we help President Obama?
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We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
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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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I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it’s my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.
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The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.
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Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
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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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Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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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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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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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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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital – which is the interest – returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.
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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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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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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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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.
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