The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
FIDEL CASTROThe revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
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 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 CASTROSovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.
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 CASTROThis country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
FIDEL CASTROThe duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
FIDEL CASTROWe need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.
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 CASTROI am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
FIDEL CASTROThere is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
FIDEL CASTROThe 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 CASTROIf religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.
FIDEL CASTROIt does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
FIDEL CASTROCondemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
FIDEL CASTROOn birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
FIDEL CASTRO