The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
FIDEL CASTROIn the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
-
-
The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
FIDEL CASTRO -
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 -
Democracy’s my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba – free ideas, freedom religion belief.
FIDEL CASTRO -
I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
FIDEL CASTRO -
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 -
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.
FIDEL CASTRO -
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 -
If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.
FIDEL CASTRO -
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
FIDEL CASTRO -
We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
FIDEL CASTRO -
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 -
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
FIDEL CASTRO -
I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
FIDEL CASTRO -
North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
FIDEL CASTRO -
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.
FIDEL CASTRO