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.
FIDEL CASTROI 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.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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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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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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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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There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
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I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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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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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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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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