Fidel Castro Quotes

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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

Fidel Castro
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Fidel Castro
Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Fidel Castro
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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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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I am not saying goodbye to you. I only wish to fight as a soldier of ideas.

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This country … abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell.

Fidel Castro
We are not only a Latin-American nation; we are an Afro-American nation also.

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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

Fidel Castro
I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. 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.

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.
Well, the fact that the species would not survive was discussed about 2,000 years ago. I remember that when I was a student I heard of the Apocalypse, a book of prophesy in the Bible. Apparently, 2000 years ago someone realized that this weak species could one day disappear.

Fidel Castro
Whoever hesitates while waiting for ideas to triumph among the masses before initiating revolutionary action will never be a revolutionary. Humanity will, of course, change. Human society will, of course, continue to develop-in spite of men and the errors of men. But that is not a revolutionary attitude.

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.

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A revolution is not a trail of roses.… A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past.

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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.

Fidel Castro
I am a Marxist-Leninist, and I will be a Marxist-Leninist until the last days of my life.

Fidel Castro
Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain as proof on this planet that if they are worked at with fervor and dignity, they can produce the material and cultural goods that human beings need, and we need to fight without a truce to obtain them.

Fidel Castro
The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

Fidel Castro
They corrupt the morals of young girls and destroy posters of Che! What do they think? That this is a bourgeois liberal regime? NO! There is nothing liberal in us! We are collectivists! We are communists! There will be no Prague Spring here!

Fidel Castro
A large percentage of those living in developed societies are told what brand of soda they should drink, what cigarettes they should smoke, what clothes and shoes they should wear, what they should eat and what brand of food they should buy. Their political ideas are supplied in the same way. Every year a trillion dollars is spent on advertising.

Fidel Castro
Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.

Fidel Castro
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.

Fidel Castro
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.

Fidel Castro
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.

Fidel Castro
Let us yield a bit. Let us grant socialism a few more years. Socialism is so obsolete, it is dying by itself.… Did I say socialism? I assure you on my honor this was not a mental slip. This was a slip of the tongue. Do not forget that. Capitalism—and I say it with such gusto—capitalism is so obsolete that it is dying by itself.

Fidel Castro