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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.

Fidel Castro

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
FIDEL CASTRO

Action Beginning Faith Man Planning Revolution Small
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
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Change Medicine Religious Social Wonderful
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
FIDEL CASTRO

Capitalism Competition Finding Hypocrisy
The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
FIDEL CASTRO

Compare Existence Live Ourselves
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
We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
FIDEL CASTRO

Equity Establishment Order Peace World
We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its Did I say socialism?
FIDEL CASTRO

Death Social Victim
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

Agreement Fall Fear Throw
I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
FIDEL CASTRO

Cry Mom Promise
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Culture Man Manifestation Science
I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
FIDEL CASTRO

Follow Victim
The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
FIDEL CASTRO

Beggar Oneself Progress
No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
FIDEL CASTRO

Government Nation People
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Age Capitalism Existence Social System Thinking War
U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.
FIDEL CASTRO

Leadership Safety Thinking
We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
FIDEL CASTRO

Exploit Revolution Theory
Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
FIDEL CASTRO

Expression Ideas Intention Revolution
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

Doubt Elegant Myself Politics Truth
If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
FIDEL CASTRO

Assassination Gold Medal Myself Survive
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
It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
FIDEL CASTRO

Faith Inspirational Planning Small Yourself
So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
FIDEL CASTRO

Communalism Organizatiom
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
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
FIDEL CASTRO

Capacity Capital Moral Poverty Problem Solve
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
FIDEL CASTRO

Constitute Existence History World
The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
FIDEL CASTRO

Responsibility Revolution

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