A revolution is a struggle to the death 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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We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
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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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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 never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.
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I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba’s political crisis…; discovering Marxism…was like finding a map in the forest.
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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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It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
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If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
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This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
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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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The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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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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