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.
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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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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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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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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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
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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 have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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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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We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.
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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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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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