Top 220 Quotes & Sayings by Fidel Castro
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Cuban statesman Fidel Castro.
Last updated on September 12, 2024.
I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.
We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.
Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
A revolution is not a bed of roses.
The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.
Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.
At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.
Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
For revolutionary Cubans, to cooperate with other poor and exploited peoples has always been a political principle and a duty towards humanity.
The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.
Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!
Defending peace is the duty of all.
Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.
The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.
The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.
Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.
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 am a just man.
England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
You may agree or not with Gaddafi's political ideas, but no one has the right to question the existence of Libya as an independent state and member of the United Nations.
I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.
I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.
None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.
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.
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.
Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
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.
If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
How can we help President Obama?
The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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.
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.'
I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.
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