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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Fidel Castro

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 CASTRO

Life Live Man Moments Thinking Weakness
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
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
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
FIDEL CASTRO

Capitalism Competition Finding Hypocrisy
Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
FIDEL CASTRO

Ignorance Illiterate Understand
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
FIDEL CASTRO

Reality Revolution Thief Time
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Poor Rich Truth
I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
FIDEL CASTRO

Dinner Invitation Myself Vote Way
How can we help President Obama?
FIDEL CASTRO

Help President
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
FIDEL CASTRO

Communism Economy Planning Representation
I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
FIDEL CASTRO

Myself Thinking
In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
FIDEL CASTRO

Anand Thakur
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?
FIDEL CASTRO

Death Social Victim
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 CASTRO

Assurance Drive Government Interest Myself Personal Politics
I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.
FIDEL CASTRO

Imperialism Launch People Propose Revolution Sacrifice Victory World
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

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