Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
FIDEL CASTROCapitalism 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.
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 CASTRONothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
FIDEL CASTRONowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.
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 CASTROWe must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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 CASTROIn the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
FIDEL CASTROMen do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
FIDEL CASTROThere is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.
FIDEL CASTROI don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
FIDEL CASTROMy 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.
FIDEL CASTROForgive 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 CASTROA revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
FIDEL CASTROThere is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
FIDEL CASTRO