If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
FIDEL CASTROThere is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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I 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.
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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!
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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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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
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Democracy’s my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba – free ideas, freedom religion belief.
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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 am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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My 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.
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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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Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
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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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We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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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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I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.
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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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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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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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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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