Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
FIDEL CASTROThe Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
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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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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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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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I don’t think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It’s the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.
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My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.
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I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
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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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I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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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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The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
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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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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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Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
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