Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
FIDEL CASTROMen do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
FIDEL CASTROCapitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
FIDEL CASTROI am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
FIDEL CASTROSo these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
FIDEL CASTROWe are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
FIDEL CASTROCapitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
FIDEL CASTROThe truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.
FIDEL CASTROWe need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.
FIDEL CASTROWere Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
FIDEL CASTROIf we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.
FIDEL CASTROI 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 CASTROThe 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 CASTROWe are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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?
FIDEL CASTROThe duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
FIDEL CASTROThere 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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