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.
FIDEL CASTROIdeas do not need weapons.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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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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The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
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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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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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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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There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?
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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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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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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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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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How can we help President Obama?
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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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