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Fidel Castro

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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Culture Man Manifestation Science
The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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Beggar Oneself Progress
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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Hungry Ignorance Wealth Weapon
There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Compare Tragedy
I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.
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Courage Experience Man Myself Personality See
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.
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Change Medicine Religious Social Wonderful
I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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Myself Reach Short Speech Talk
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Familiar Ideas Myself Politics Reason Revolution Symbol
The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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Belief Revolution Share University
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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Capitalism Money Social Throw
Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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Body Human Imagination
On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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Avoid Measurement Myself
I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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Freedom Liberty Myself
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.
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Age Mindset Myself People Poet
Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.
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Repeat Revolution Virtue
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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Country End Factory Industry Interest Policy Price Smart
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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Assurance Drive Government Interest Myself Personal Politics
Ideas do not need weapons.
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Ideas One Liner Weapon
If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
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Capitalism Imperialism Socialism
Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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Capitalism Reverse World
I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.
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Blame Communalism Myself Oppression Thinking
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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Communist Moments Myself Revolution
Forgive me for using the term ‘fat little brother’. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don’t you think? I’m doing this for the gentleman’s health.
FIDEL CASTRO

Criticism Forgiveness Health Myself
The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is – and I mean this seriously – the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
FIDEL CASTRO

Competition Globalization Myself Selection Serious
I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
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Myself Power Thinking Weapon Willing
The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
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Responsibility Revolution
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
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Cleaning Growth Material Planet Resource Society

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