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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.

Fidel Castro

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
FIDEL CASTRO

Capitalism Money Social Throw
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Clothing Culture Food Knowledge Life
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Age Capitalism Existence Social System Thinking War
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Criticism Forgiveness Health Myself
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!
FIDEL CASTRO

End Ideas Important Revolution Sentiment Virtue Warfare
The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
FIDEL CASTRO

Modeling Ourselves Work
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
FIDEL CASTRO

Cleaning Growth Material Planet Resource Society
If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
FIDEL CASTRO

Assassination Gold Medal Myself Survive
We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
FIDEL CASTRO

Exploit Revolution Theory
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
FIDEL CASTRO

Communist Moments Myself Revolution
Democracy’s my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba – free ideas, freedom religion belief.
FIDEL CASTRO

Agreement Belief Communalism Democracy Freedom Ideas Religion
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
FIDEL CASTRO

Death Future Past Revolution Struggle
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Discover Enough Finding Man Myself Politics Theory
There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?
FIDEL CASTRO

Failure Socialism Success Talk
I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.
FIDEL CASTRO

Courage Experience Man Myself Personality See
There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
FIDEL CASTRO

Attendance Doctor Enough Planet

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