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.
FIDEL CASTROThe 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.
FIDEL CASTROI find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
FIDEL CASTROI began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
FIDEL CASTROA revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
FIDEL CASTROI 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.
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 CASTROIf 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 CASTRORevolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
FIDEL CASTROIf surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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 CASTROGood athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
FIDEL CASTROI 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.
FIDEL CASTROThere is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?
FIDEL CASTROI am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
FIDEL CASTROThe Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
FIDEL CASTROThe greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
FIDEL CASTRO