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 CASTROEveryone 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.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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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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There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
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We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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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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Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.
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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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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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North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.
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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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