All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
FIDEL CASTROThere is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.
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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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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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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 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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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
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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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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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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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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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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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I am someone who’s been in politics for 43 years and I know what I’m doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
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