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.
FIDEL CASTROI 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.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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 reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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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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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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If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
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I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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I 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.
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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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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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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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Ideas do not need weapons.
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If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.
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Forgive 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.
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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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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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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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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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I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.
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