Top 100 Fidel Castro Quotes
#1. If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.
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#2. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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#3. 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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#4. We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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#5. There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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#6. 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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#8. 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.
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#9. A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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#10. I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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#11. 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.
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#12. 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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#13. The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.
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#15. Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
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#16. The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore,
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#17. Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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#18. Humanity can learn from those who have broken their chains. Those who have chained humanity for centuries cannot teach humanity anything.
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#19. I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
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#20. 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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#21. The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
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#22. I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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#23. I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
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#24. Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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#25. More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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#26. 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.
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#27. inspired my own life.
Victory has thousands father but failure always find itself an orphan.
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#28. I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.
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#29. When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.
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#30. I 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.
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#31. 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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#32. The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
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#33. 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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#34. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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#35. If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
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#36. 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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#37. I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
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#38. 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.
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#39. The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
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#40. 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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#41. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
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#42. 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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#43. 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.
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#44. 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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#45. I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.
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#46. You Americans keep saying that Cuba is ninety miles from the United States. I say that the United States is ninety miles from Cuba and for us, that is worse.
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#47. 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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#48. I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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#49. I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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#50. The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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#51. We have the lowest student-teacher ratio and spend five times as much on schools than war - the opposite of what the United States does. [explaining why Cuba has the highest literacy in the world]
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#52. North Americans don't understand ... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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#53. The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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#54. I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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#55. The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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#56. Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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#57. The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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#58. U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe,
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#59. We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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#60. 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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#61. Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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#62. 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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#63. Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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#64. I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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#65. No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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#66. No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
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#67. In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
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#68. 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.
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#69. On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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#70. Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
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#71. I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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#72. I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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#73. Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.
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#74. I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating ... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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#75. Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world.
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#76. The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
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#77. One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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#78. 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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#79. The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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#80. 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.
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#81. 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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#82. Hysterical? Neuractic? I am all that ain't more than juggernaut!
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#83. I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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#84. There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of care,
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#85. Forgive me for using the term 'fat little brother' ... It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don't you think? I'm doing this for the gentleman's health.
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#86. There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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#87. Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
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#88. They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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#89. Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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#90. Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
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#91. 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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#92. Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.
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#93. I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
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#94. 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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#95. If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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#96. We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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#97. It would have been the easiest thing in the world for us to build those emplacements under the guise of something totally different and they would have never been discovered. The amazing thing was that they weren't discovered earlier. It was a question of carelessness, lack of foresight.
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#98. All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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#99. We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
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#100. 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, illness, poverty or hunger.
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