Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
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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The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
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Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.
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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
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My 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.
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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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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
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I 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.
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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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Forgive me for using the term ‘fat little brother’. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don’t you think? I’m doing this for the gentleman’s health.
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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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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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How can we help President Obama?
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There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?
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