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.
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.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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If 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.
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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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I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.
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Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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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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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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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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Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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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 people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
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I 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.
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I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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We 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.
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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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U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.
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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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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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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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The 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.
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I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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