We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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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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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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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The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is – and I mean this seriously – the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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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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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
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I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.
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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 greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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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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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 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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I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
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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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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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We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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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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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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Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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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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