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.
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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The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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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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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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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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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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Quality 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.
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The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
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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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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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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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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.
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