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.
FIDEL CASTROIf surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
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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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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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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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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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We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
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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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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.
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