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.
FIDEL CASTROA revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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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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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 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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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 have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.
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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.
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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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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 only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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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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