Fidel Castro Quotes
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.
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
...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.
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.
There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?
I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
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.
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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.
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.
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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.
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 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.
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
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.
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.
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.
U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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.
