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.
FIDEL CASTROI’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.
FIDEL CASTROMen do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
FIDEL CASTROThere 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.
FIDEL CASTROIn the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
FIDEL CASTROMy 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.
FIDEL CASTROOn birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
FIDEL CASTROIdeas do not need weapons.
FIDEL CASTROU.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.
FIDEL CASTROThe Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
FIDEL CASTROThere are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
FIDEL CASTROThe 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.
FIDEL CASTROYoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
FIDEL CASTROThe 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.
FIDEL CASTROI 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.
FIDEL CASTROI have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
FIDEL CASTROQuality 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.
FIDEL CASTRO