A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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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I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.
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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.
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Ideas do not need weapons.
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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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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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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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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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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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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
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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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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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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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