No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
FIDEL CASTROWe do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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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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Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.
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Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.
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A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital – which is the interest – returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.
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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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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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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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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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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 not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba’s political crisis…; discovering Marxism…was like finding a map in the forest.
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This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
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There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?
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