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.
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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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
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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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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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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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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.
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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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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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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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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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Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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