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.
FIDEL CASTROI 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.
FIDEL CASTROI’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it’s my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.
FIDEL CASTROI 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 CASTROWarfare 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 CASTROI 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 CASTROThe 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.
FIDEL CASTROThe revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
FIDEL CASTROEveryone 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.
FIDEL CASTROThe Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
FIDEL CASTROWe do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
FIDEL CASTROThe universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
FIDEL CASTROHow can we help President Obama?
FIDEL CASTROWe are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
FIDEL CASTROIf people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
FIDEL CASTROI have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
FIDEL CASTROWe are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its Did I say socialism?
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