I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
FIDEL CASTROI am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it’s my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.
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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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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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I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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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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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
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I 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.
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The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.
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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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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 are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
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The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
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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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