Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
FIDEL CASTROI am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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How can we help President Obama?
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I am someone who’s been in politics for 43 years and I know what I’m doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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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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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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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
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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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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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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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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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I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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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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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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