Fidel Castro Quotes
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I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
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Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.
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The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet.
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I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
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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.
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The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.
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The prestige of the international financial institutions rates less than zero.
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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.
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The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.
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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.
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On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Biran! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture, and other agricultural crops were planted.
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Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.
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We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.
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The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.
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We do not need the empire to give us anything.
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The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
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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.
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None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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This country … abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell.
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In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.
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As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn't be admissible.