There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
FIDEL CASTROI 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.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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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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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
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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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The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
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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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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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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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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since it is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.
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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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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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