138 Most Memorable Quotes By Fidel Castro
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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.
How can we help President Obama?
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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 am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!
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.
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.
None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.
The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.
The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.
If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
The Arab population of Palestine are victims of genocidal actions; their lands are confiscated or deprived of water supplies in the semi-desert areas, and their homes are destroyed with heavy wrecking equipment.
We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.
I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.
Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
At times, I've referred to Christ's miracles, and have said, 'Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.'
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.
We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.
