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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

Fidel Castro

The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
FIDEL CASTRO

Democracy Election Government Revolution Time
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 CASTRO

Assurance Drive Government Interest Myself Personal Politics
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Poor Rich Truth
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!
FIDEL CASTRO

End Ideas Important Revolution Sentiment Virtue Warfare
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
FIDEL CASTRO

Capitalism Competition Finding Hypocrisy
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Country End Factory Industry Interest Policy Price Smart
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Culture Man Manifestation Science
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Age Capitalism Existence Social System Thinking War
The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
FIDEL CASTRO

Modeling Ourselves Work
I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
FIDEL CASTRO

Follow Victim
Today, the entire country is an immense University.
FIDEL CASTRO

Country Immense University
Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
FIDEL CASTRO

Capitalism Reverse World
There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
FIDEL CASTRO

Democracy Government Revolution
This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
FIDEL CASTRO

Country Heaven Hell Sense Spiritual Survive
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Communalism Foreign Myself Power
The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
FIDEL CASTRO

Beggar Oneself Progress

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