Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
FIDEL CASTROGood athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.
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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!
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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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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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 am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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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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My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.
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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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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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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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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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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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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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Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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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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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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There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?
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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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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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North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
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