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.
FIDEL CASTROI am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.
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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.
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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 no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.
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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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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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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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