No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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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I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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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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We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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I am someone who’s been in politics for 43 years and I know what I’m doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
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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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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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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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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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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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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.
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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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The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
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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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