I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
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.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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 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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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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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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I am someone who’s been in politics for 43 years and I know what I’m doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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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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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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It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
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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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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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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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I 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.
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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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