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.
FIDEL CASTROCapitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.
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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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The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is – and I mean this seriously – the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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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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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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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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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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Ideas do not need weapons.
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There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.
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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.
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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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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.
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Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.
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I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it’s my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.
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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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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 revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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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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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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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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