No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
FIDEL CASTROI 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.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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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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I am someone who’s been in politics for 43 years and I know what I’m doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
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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 am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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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?
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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.
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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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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.
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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
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