The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since it is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.
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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.
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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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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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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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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.
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The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
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Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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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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Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
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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.
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