Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.
— Fidel Castro
I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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.
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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.
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
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.
I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
How can we help President Obama?
North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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.
Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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 a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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.
There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
A revolution is not a bed of roses.
