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.
FIDEL CASTROWe 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.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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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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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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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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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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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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North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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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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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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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.
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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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I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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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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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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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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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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Democracy’s my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba – free ideas, freedom religion belief.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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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 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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I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
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I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.
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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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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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