Fidel Castro Quotes

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• 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…
• I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
• Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
• A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
• They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
• More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
• The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
• Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
• 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…
• The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
• I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
• A revolution is not a bed of roses.
• There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
• How can we help President Obama?
• North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
• I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
• I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
• 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…
• I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
• 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…

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