Fidel Castro Quotes

Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!
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End Ideas Important Revolution Sentiment Virtue Warfare
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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Agreement Belief Communalism Democracy Freedom Ideas Religion
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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Assurance Drive Government Interest Myself Personal Politics
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.
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People Plain Possible Strong
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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Benefit Company People Revenue
No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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Government Nation People
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
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Constitute Existence History World
We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.
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Economics Hungry Kill Man Trial War
We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
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Peace Possible Transition
The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
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Responsibility Revolution
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
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Action Beginning Faith Man Planning Revolution Small
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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Capitalism Money Social Throw
If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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Assassination Gold Medal Myself Survive
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.
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Hungry Ignorance Wealth Weapon
The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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Beggar Oneself Progress
Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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Destiny Man Production Time
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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Communalism Foreign Myself Power
The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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Modeling Ourselves Work
I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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Follow Victim
The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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Competition Greatness Ignorance
The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Compare Existence Live Ourselves
Ideas do not need weapons.
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Ideas One Liner Weapon
This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
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Country Heaven Hell Sense Spiritual Survive
Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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Expression Ideas Intention Revolution
Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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Capitalism Reverse World
Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.
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Hungry Kill People Planet Poverty War World
I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.
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Familiar Ideas Myself Politics Reason Revolution Symbol

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