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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.

Fidel Castro

All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
FIDEL CASTRO

Criticism Revolution
The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
FIDEL CASTRO

Compare Existence Live Ourselves
There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
FIDEL CASTRO

Compare Tragedy
A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital – which is the interest – returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.
FIDEL CASTRO

Country End Factory Industry Interest Policy Price Smart
I don’t think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It’s the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.
FIDEL CASTRO

Age Capitalism Existence Social System Thinking War
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Assurance Drive Government Interest Myself Personal Politics
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Agreement Fall Fear Throw
Today, the entire country is an immense University.
FIDEL CASTRO

Country Immense University
The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.
FIDEL CASTRO

Hungry Ignorance Wealth Weapon
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
FIDEL CASTRO

Constitute Existence History World
I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it’s my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.
FIDEL CASTRO

Attachment Death Feeling Myself Responsibility
I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
FIDEL CASTRO

Dinner Invitation Myself Vote Way
I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
FIDEL CASTRO

Freedom Liberty Myself
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
FIDEL CASTRO

Extraordinary God Ideas Myself
Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
FIDEL CASTRO

Destiny Man Production Time
The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
FIDEL CASTRO

Competition Greatness Ignorance
The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
FIDEL CASTRO

Democracy Election Government Revolution Time
I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
FIDEL CASTRO

Identity Myself Willing
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
FIDEL CASTRO

Capitalism Money Social Throw
If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
FIDEL CASTRO

Myself People Religion Social Vision
So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
FIDEL CASTRO

Communalism Organizatiom
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
FIDEL CASTRO

Benefit Company People Revenue
I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
FIDEL CASTRO

Myself Power Thinking Weapon Willing
I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
FIDEL CASTRO

Myself Reach Short Speech Talk
There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
FIDEL CASTRO

Democracy Government Revolution
I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
FIDEL CASTRO

Myself Thinking
If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.
FIDEL CASTRO

Change Medicine Religious Social Wonderful

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