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.
FIDEL CASTROI am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!
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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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Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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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 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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In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
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We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.
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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 propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.
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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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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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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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Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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