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.
FIDEL CASTROIf 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.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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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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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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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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We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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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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The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
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I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
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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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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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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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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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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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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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I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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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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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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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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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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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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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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