Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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 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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How can we help President Obama?
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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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Forgive me for using the term ‘fat little brother’. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don’t you think? I’m doing this for the gentleman’s health.
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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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There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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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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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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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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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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I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
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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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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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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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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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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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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
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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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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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Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.
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