Fidel Castro quotes - page 4

Scorn relations with the imperialist Government of the United States, a Government of genocide and decadence .. We have supported, we are supporting and we shall support revolutionary movements in Latin America. .. We feel very well outside the O.A.S., in fact better than inside. The O.A.S. is an organization that is bound to disappear. (Fidel Castro)
The economic management and planning system was not set up so that we can play at capitalism; and some people are shamefully playing at capitalism; we know this, we see it, and this must be set right. View quote
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It is really impressive what a filth system capitalism is, that can't guarantee its own people employment, nor health, nor adequate education; that cannot prevent youth from being corrupted by drugs, gamble, and all kind of vices. View quote
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We are speaking of life, because whenever we speak of universities, we speak of life. What are you? If I were asked that question right now, I would have to say that you are life, you are symbols of life. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist. View quote
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. View quote
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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. View quote
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism. View quote
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In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty. (Fidel Castro)
There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust. View quote
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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young. View quote
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The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. View quote
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Las ideas no necesitan ni de las armas, en la medida en que sean capaces de conquistar a las grandes masas. (Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.) View quote
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Here is a conclusion I've come to after many years: among all the errors we may have committed, the greatest of them all was that we believed that someone really knew something about socialism, or that someone actually knew how to build socialism. View quote
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I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. View quote
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Man is born egotistical, a result of the conditioning of nature. Nature fills us with instincts; it is education that fills us with virtues. View quote
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After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me. (Fidel Castro)
I would dare say that today this species is facing a very real and true danger of extinction, and no one can be sure, listen to this well, no one can be sure that it will survive this danger. View quote
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Capitalism-and I say it with such gusto-capitalism is so obsolete that it is dying by itself. View quote
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Revolution is the sense of the historical moment; it is changing everything that must be changed. View quote
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It is amazing that in spite of the differences between human beings, they can become as one in a single instant or they can be millions, and they can be a million strong just through their ideas. View quote
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