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If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.

Fidel Castro

Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
FIDEL CASTRO

Destiny Man Production Time
I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
FIDEL CASTRO

Freedom Liberty Myself
Today, the entire country is an immense University.
FIDEL CASTRO

Country Immense University
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Country End Factory Industry Interest Policy Price Smart
Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
FIDEL CASTRO

Ignorance Illiterate Understand
We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its Did I say socialism?
FIDEL CASTRO

Death Social Victim
No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
FIDEL CASTRO

Government Nation People
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Hungry Ignorance Wealth Weapon
One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
FIDEL CASTRO

Belief Greatness Ourselves Prostitute
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.
FIDEL CASTRO

Communalism Foreign Myself Power
There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
FIDEL CASTRO

Democracy Government Revolution
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Culture Man Manifestation Science
The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
FIDEL CASTRO

Democracy Election Government Revolution Time
We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
FIDEL CASTRO

Ourselves Politician Politics
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
FIDEL CASTRO

Hungry Live People Suffering
Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!
FIDEL CASTRO

End Ideas Important Revolution Sentiment Virtue Warfare

If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.

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If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.

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