I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
FIDEL CASTROI am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
FIDEL CASTROWe are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
FIDEL CASTROI 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.
FIDEL CASTROMy 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.
FIDEL CASTROWe are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
FIDEL CASTROCondemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
FIDEL CASTRONorth Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
FIDEL CASTROI am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
FIDEL CASTROWe do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
FIDEL CASTROThe Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
FIDEL CASTROI have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
FIDEL CASTROI am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.
FIDEL CASTROI 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 CASTROThere is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
FIDEL CASTROI 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 CASTROYoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
FIDEL CASTRO