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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.

Fidel Castro

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
FIDEL CASTRO

Bed Past Revolution Rose Struggle
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Life Live Man Moments Thinking Weakness
The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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Competition Greatness Ignorance
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
FIDEL CASTRO

Extraordinary God Ideas Myself
I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.
FIDEL CASTRO

Blame Communalism Myself Oppression Thinking
We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
FIDEL CASTRO

Peace Possible Transition
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Hungry Ignorance Wealth Weapon
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.
FIDEL CASTRO

Communalism Foreign Myself Power
The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.
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Poor Rich Truth
There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
FIDEL CASTRO

Compare Tragedy
I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it’s my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.
FIDEL CASTRO

Attachment Death Feeling Myself Responsibility
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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Age Capitalism Existence Social System Thinking War
All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
FIDEL CASTRO

Criticism Revolution
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 CASTRO

Age Mindset Myself People Poet
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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Cleaning Growth Material Planet Resource Society
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!
FIDEL CASTRO

End Ideas Important Revolution Sentiment Virtue Warfare

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