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.
FIDEL CASTROQuality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
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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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The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.
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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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I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
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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.
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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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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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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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How can we help President Obama?
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If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
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The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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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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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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