I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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Quality 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.
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We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
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I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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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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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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Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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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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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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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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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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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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