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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

Fidel Castro

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
FIDEL CASTRO

Myself Power Thinking Weapon Willing
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Communalism Foreign Myself Power
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
FIDEL CASTRO

Cleaning Growth Material Planet Resource Society
There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.
FIDEL CASTRO

Agreement Fall Fear Throw
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Culture Man Manifestation Science
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
FIDEL CASTRO

Extraordinary God Ideas Myself
The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
FIDEL CASTRO

Compare Existence Live Ourselves
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Dinner Invitation Myself Vote Way
I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
FIDEL CASTRO

Identity Myself Willing
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!
FIDEL CASTRO

End Ideas Important Revolution Sentiment Virtue Warfare
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 CASTRO

Age Capitalism Existence Social System Thinking War
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
FIDEL CASTRO

Capitalism Money Social Throw
Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.
FIDEL CASTRO

exchange Maintain Negotiate Power
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
FIDEL CASTRO

Capacity Capital Moral Poverty Problem Solve
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 CASTRO

Change Medicine Religious Social Wonderful
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
FIDEL CASTRO

Bed Past Revolution Rose Struggle

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