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There 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 Castro

I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
FIDEL CASTRO

Myself Reach Short Speech Talk
The 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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Competition Globalization Myself Selection Serious
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
FIDEL CASTRO

Benefit Company People Revenue
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
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
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
FIDEL CASTRO

Hungry Live People Suffering
I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
FIDEL CASTRO

Cry Mom Promise
A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital – which is the interest – returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.
FIDEL CASTRO

Country End Factory Industry Interest Policy Price Smart
The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
FIDEL CASTRO

Belief Revolution Share University
We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
FIDEL CASTRO

Exploit Revolution Theory
There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?
FIDEL CASTRO

Failure Socialism Success Talk
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
FIDEL CASTRO

Communism Economy Planning Representation
North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
FIDEL CASTRO

Country Humanity Understand
How can we help President Obama?
FIDEL CASTRO

Help President
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Doubt Enemy Establishment Freedom Media
All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
FIDEL CASTRO

Criticism Revolution

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