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.
FIDEL CASTROIf surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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.
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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
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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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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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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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There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
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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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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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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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How can we help President Obama?
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Ideas do not need weapons.
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If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.
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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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