Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
FIDEL CASTRONorth Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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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!
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The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
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If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
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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 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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I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba’s political crisis…; discovering Marxism…was like finding a map in the forest.
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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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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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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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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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North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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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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