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 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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Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?
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I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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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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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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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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Democracy’s my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba – free ideas, freedom religion belief.
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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 not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
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I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.
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We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
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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.
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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.
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