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.
FIDEL CASTRONo government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.
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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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Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
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Ideas do not need weapons.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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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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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since it is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.
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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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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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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
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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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There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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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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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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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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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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Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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