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.
FIDEL CASTROThere is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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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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If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.
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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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If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
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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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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
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If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
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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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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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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.
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