I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
FIDEL CASTROCondemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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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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We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
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Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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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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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
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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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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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I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since it is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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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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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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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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