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 CASTROI neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
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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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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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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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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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Ideas do not need weapons.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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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 no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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