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.
FIDEL CASTROThere is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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Ideas do not need weapons.
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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.
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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba’s political crisis…; discovering Marxism…was like finding a map in the forest.
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We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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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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If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
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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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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 follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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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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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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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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I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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