Fidel Castro Quotes

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.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.

The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.

Why do some people have to go barefoot so that others can drive luxury cars? Why are some people able to live only 35 years in order that others can live 70 years? Why do some people have to be miserably poor in order that others can be extravagantly rich? I speak for all the children in the world who don't even have a piece of bread.

We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

With what moral authority can they speak of human rights - the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated? How can they do this - the bosses of an empire where the mafia, gambling, and child prostitution are imposed; where the CIA organizes plans of global subversion and espionage, and the Pentagon creates neutron bombs capable of preserving material assets and wiping out human beings.

One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

Ideas do not need weapons.

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

I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.

...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.

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

If we wish to express what we want the men of future generations to be, we must say: Let them be like Che! If we wish to say how we want our children to be educated, we must say without hesitation: We want them to be educated in Che’s spirit! If we want the model of a man, who does not belong to our times but to the future, I say from the depths of my heart that such a model, without a single stain on his conduct, without a single stain on his action, is Che!

Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.

We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.

No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

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.

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

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.