If 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 CASTROThe societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
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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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Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
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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 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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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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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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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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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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