Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
FIDEL CASTROI’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Everyone 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.
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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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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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I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.
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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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The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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Forgive me for using the term ‘fat little brother’. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don’t you think? I’m doing this for the gentleman’s health.
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Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its Did I say socialism?
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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 am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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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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Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
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We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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I 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.
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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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Ideas do not need weapons.
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