81 result(s) for Fidel Castro Quotes.
"I began the 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 a plan of action."
"Condemn me. It is of no importance. History will absolve me."
"Revolution is a sense of the historical moment; it means the seeking of a solution not only to the problems that afflict all of us, but also it means the sense of the moment, the will and the conviction that we can resolve these problems."
"I'm not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain myself in power, even if half the people support me."
"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?"
"I'm not interested in power nor do I envisage assuming it at any time. All that I do is based on the idea that the accumulation of power and personal ambition can only be very harmful for a revolutionary process, for human beings, and for humanity."
"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."
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"I am a teacher, a teacher of revolution. And for me, the simplest and most effective teaching vehicle for revolution is guerrilla warfare."
"How can we trust the United States?"
"The revolution is like a bicycle. When the wheels don't turn, it falls."
"There is often no less danger in the corridors of power than in the streets."
"I became a revolutionary in the process of becoming a doctor."
"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."
"A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."
"I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement. I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be until the last days of my life."
"Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me."
"I warn you, I'm just beginning. If there is in me any idea of capitulation, forget it; forget it."
"There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy."
"Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it. In a materialistic society, money is the goose that lays the golden eggs. Capital benefit and socialism benefits the people."
"I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last days of my life."
"The peoples of Latin America are not going to permit the borders of Mexico to be the borders of liberty."
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"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."
"I'll be 90 years old or more"
"You cannot exploit the workers, you have to pay them their wages."
"Yes, my recent decisions are based on the very latest information, but I've been thinking about them for 50 years."
"We do not need the empire to give us anything."
"I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement."
"I began the revolution with one objective: to help make impossible dreams possible."
"I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger."
"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."
"Condemn me, it does not matter, history will absolve me."
"You cannot exploit the workers in one country to defeat those of another."
"I do not want to say that Castro is a dictator, so I will simply say that I do not know any more."
"Our country is not a country that can be intimidated."
"Every day peoples are straying away from the church and going back to God."
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"What matters is that the problems cannot be resolved in an arid atmosphere of abstraction, but only in a living one based on action, truth, and the very facts."
"I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun."
"Condemn me, it does not matter. History will absolve me."
"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 became a revolutionary when I was very young. If I had to do it over again, I would not change anything."
"I am not a communist, I am a Marxist-Leninist."
"I'm not thinking of cutting my beard, because I'm accustomed to my beard and my beard means many things to my country. When we fulfill our promise of good government, I will cut my beard."
"I warned that the imperialists were not going to hand the world over to us as is, and Obama is coming right out, without camouflage... and he says it straight to the people of Latin America: 'We are not going to hand the world over to you.'"
"They talk about the failure of socialism, but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?"
"I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy, and competition."
"A revolution is not a bed of roses; a revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."
"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves."
"I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a gun."
"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 a plan of action."
"The Cuban people have fulfilled their duty, without any exceptions and without any distinction. If today a bomb exploded in this room, we would all end up in heaven."
"Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour."
"I do not consider that by citing the example of Cuba, I can fully illuminate Uruguay of Argentina."
"I could not care less what people think of me."
"The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong."
"The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs."
"Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away."
"A revolution is not a bed of roses."
"The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters."
"There are no Cubans inside the U.S. base. They are under U.S. control."
"I think the Cuban people are a politically mature people."
"Revolution is not a bed of roses. It is a battle between the future and the past."
"I am not a communist. I am a Marxist-Leninist."
"A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past."
"I began the revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I would do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action."
"I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition."
"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ."
"Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour."
"I am a man of the mountain, of struggle."
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated."
"I'm not thinking of cutting my beard, because I'm accustomed to my beard and my beard means many things to my country. When we fulfill our promise of good government I will cut my beard."
"Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me."
"A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."
"I am a man of the present, not of the future."
"I reached the conclusion long ago that the one last sacrifice I must make for my country is to abandon my life. I do not want to leave any wounds open after my death."
"I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life."
"I am not accustomed to giving ground, at least not for free."
"Every year has been more of a challenge for me, and with more experience, you hope the next year is going to be better than the last one."
"Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty."
"I have never been afraid of the word 'traitor'."
"I believe that a gift like liberty is the most beautiful gift one can bestow on a people."
"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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