I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
FIDEL CASTROMen do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
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I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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Forgive me for using the term ‘fat little brother’. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don’t you think? I’m doing this for the gentleman’s health.
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I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
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There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
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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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Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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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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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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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.
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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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Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
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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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The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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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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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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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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