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It would have been the easies...

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 166 quotes

Were Kennedy not a millionair...

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

Fidel Castro 166 quotes

The societies of consumption ...

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

Fidel Castro 166 quotes

I can assure you that my firs...

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since [it] is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.

Fidel Castro 166 quotes

If we had paused to tell the ...

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 166 quotes

I am someone who's been in po...

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 166 quotes

I do not conceive of any mani...

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 166 quotes

I am not a communist and neit...

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.

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I don't think anyone has been...

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.

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I have not seen the Himalayas...

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.

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A smart policy should be one ...

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 166 quotes

Those [Anti-Cubans] who attack...

Those [Anti-Cubans] who attack us [Cubans] don't represent more than a fraction of 1 percent. ... You [the foreign news media] have helped create them.

Fidel Castro 166 quotes

Capitalism is using its money;...

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

Fidel Castro 166 quotes

I began revolution with 82 men...

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 166 quotes

I find capitalism repugnant. I...

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

Fidel Castro 166 quotes

Men do not shape destiny, Dest...

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

Fidel Castro 166 quotes

A revolution is a struggle to ...

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

Fidel Castro 166 quotes

They talk about the failure of...

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

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More than 820 million people i...

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

Fidel Castro 166 quotes

The revenues of Cuban state-ru...

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

Fidel Castro 166 quotes

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