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.
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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I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
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The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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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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I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.
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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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The 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.
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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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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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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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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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