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.
FIDEL CASTROThe existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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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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I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
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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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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
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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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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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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 neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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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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The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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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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North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
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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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Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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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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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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The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
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I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.
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I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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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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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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