Fidel Castro Quotes

Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.

So these Red Sox... are they a Communist organization?

No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.

Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.

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.

Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.

... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

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.

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.

How can we help President Obama?

If someone is responsible, it's me.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

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

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.

Today, the entire country is an immense University.

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

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.

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

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.

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

Hysterical? Neuractic? I am all that ain't more than juggernaut!

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

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.

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

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

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

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

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

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.

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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