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.
FIDEL CASTROAll criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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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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There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.
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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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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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Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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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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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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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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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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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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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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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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Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
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