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.
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.
FIDEL CASTROI am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
FIDEL CASTROI am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
FIDEL CASTROWarfare 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 CASTROCondemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
FIDEL CASTROIf surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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 CASTROCuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
FIDEL CASTROYoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
FIDEL CASTROI 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.
FIDEL CASTROThe truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.
FIDEL CASTROI believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
FIDEL CASTROMen do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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 CASTROI would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
FIDEL CASTROIdeas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
FIDEL CASTRO