The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
FIDEL CASTROWe must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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 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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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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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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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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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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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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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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I 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.
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Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.
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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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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.
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