Fidel Castro famous quotes

The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
-- Fidel Castro

#Ignorance #Competition #Idiocy

A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital - which is the interest - returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.
-- Fidel Castro

#Country #Smart #Pay

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.
-- Fidel Castro

#Military #Men #History

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.
-- Fidel Castro

#Years #Doubt #Telling The Truth

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
-- Fidel Castro

#Doe #Matter #Dictator

The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution
-- Fidel Castro

#Change #Revolution #Revolutionary

With what moral authority can [the US] speak of human rights... the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; where the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated... Where the CIA organizes plans of global subversion and espionage, and the Pentagon creates neutron bombs capable of preserving material assets and wiping out human beings.
-- Fidel Castro

#War #Latin #Men

We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.
-- Fidel Castro

#Children #War #Men

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
-- Fidel Castro

#Fake People #War #Hypocrisy

If we wish to express what we want the men of future generations to be, we must say: Let them be like Che! If we wish to say how we want our children to be educated, we must say without hesitation: We want them to be educated in Che’s spirit! If we want the model of a man, who does not belong to our times but to the future, I say from the depths of my heart that such a model, without a single stain on his conduct, without a single stain on his action, is Che!
-- Fidel Castro

#Children #Heart #Men

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
-- Fidel Castro

#People #Suffering #World

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
-- Fidel Castro

#College #Belief #Revolutionary

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
-- Fidel Castro

#Military #Politics #Revolution

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, illness, poverty or hunger.
-- Fidel Castro

#Ignorance #Weapons #Poverty

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
-- Fidel Castro

#Fake People #Real #Thieves

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.
-- Fidel Castro

#War #Movement #Fawns

When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.
-- Fidel Castro

#Girl #Father #Boys

...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.
-- Fidel Castro

#Lying #Quality #Culture

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
-- Fidel Castro

#Poverty #Ethics #Morality

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

#War #Lasts #Cold

The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
-- Fidel Castro

#Holocaust #Compare #Existence

The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way moved by concepts related to the interests of the family or of society...Just when science and technology are making incredible advances in all fields, they resort to technology to suppress revolutions and ask the help of science to prevent population growth. In short, the peoples are not to make revolutions, and women are not to give birth. This sums up the philosophy of imperialism.
-- Fidel Castro

#Philosophy #Science #Technology

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.
-- Fidel Castro

#Thinking #Boots #Duty

U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe,
-- Fidel Castro

#Thinking #Leader #Safe

Ideas do not need weapons.
-- Fidel Castro

#Ideas #Needs #Weapons

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
-- Fidel Castro

#Winning #Gold #Events

I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
-- Fidel Castro

#Jesus #Humanity #Revolutionary

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

#Running #People #Nerd

Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
-- Fidel Castro

#Yoga #Imagination #Doe

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.
-- Fidel Castro

#Men #Personality #Himalayas

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
-- Fidel Castro

#Struggle #Past #Revolution

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

#Cold War #Capitalism

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.
-- Fidel Castro

#Christian #People #Vision

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

#Latin #Reality #Eugenics

A revolution is not a bed of roses.
-- Fidel Castro

#Rose #Bed #Revolution

It would have been the easiest thing in the world for us to build those emplacements under the guise of something totally different and they would have never been discovered. The amazing thing was that they weren't discovered earlier. It was a question of carelessness, lack of foresight.
-- Fidel Castro

#War #Different #World

There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of care,
-- Fidel Castro

#Doctors #Care #Enough

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.
-- Fidel Castro

#Thinking #Blame #Jew

There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.
-- Fidel Castro

#Fall #Waiting #Ashes

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

#Cuba #World #Educated

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

#War #Gun #Thinking

The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore,
-- Fidel Castro

#Cuban #Models

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.
-- Fidel Castro

#Brother #Exercise #Thinking

One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
-- Fidel Castro

#College #Benefits #Revolution

All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
-- Fidel Castro

#Criticism #Revolutionary

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
-- Fidel Castro

#Cuba #Castro

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

#Movement #Revolutionary #Communist

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.
-- Fidel Castro

#Airports #Dinner #Way

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

#President #Accepting #States

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.
-- Fidel Castro

#Ideas #United States #World

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

#Destiny #Men #Historical

How can we help President Obama?
-- Fidel Castro

#Usa #President #Helping

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

#Country #Humanity #Cuba

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.
-- Fidel Castro

#Art #Science #Men

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

#Ideas #Growth #Environment

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

#Ignorant #Peasants #Millionaire

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

#Latin #Afros #Latin American

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

#Believe #I Believe #Young

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
-- Fidel Castro

#Sorry #Stills

It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
-- Fidel Castro

#Doe #Have Faith #Matter

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

#Attitude #Men #Errors

I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
-- Fidel Castro

#Speech #Should #Conclusion

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

#Progress #Alliances #Millionaire

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

#Government #People

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

#Order #World #Economics

The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been,
-- Fidel Castro

#Ignorance #Mean #Competition

Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.
-- Fidel Castro

#People #Giving #Revolution

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.
-- Fidel Castro

#Strong #People #Able

I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.
-- Fidel Castro

#Sacrifice #People #Victory

Las ideas no necesitan ni de las armas, en la medida en que sean capaces de conquistar a las grandes masas. (Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
-- Fidel Castro

#Ideas #Needs #Weapons

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

#Ideas #Political #Fields

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.
-- Fidel Castro

#War #People #World

I don't think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It's the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.
-- Fidel Castro

#War #Thinking #Arrows

We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
-- Fidel Castro

#Order #Justice #World

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

#Juggernaut #Hysterical

Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!
-- Fidel Castro

#Mean #Ideas #Important

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

#Men #Political #Cuba

Today, the entire country is an immense University.
-- Fidel Castro

#Country #Today #University

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
-- Fidel Castro

#Holocaust #Compare

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

#Thinking #Jew

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
-- Fidel Castro

#Jesus #Ideas #Saws

This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
-- Fidel Castro

#Spiritual #Country #Heaven

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.
-- Fidel Castro

#Doubt #Enemy #Firsts

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
-- Fidel Castro

#Justice #Democracy #Communism

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

#Birthday #Men #Thinking

Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
-- Fidel Castro

#Success #Athlete #Victory

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

#Military #Real #Moving

If someone is responsible, it's me,
-- Fidel Castro

#Responsible