Fidel Castro Quotes - Page 4

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

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

The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

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

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

How can we help President Obama?

There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.

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.

We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?

... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.

Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

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.

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.

I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

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.

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

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.

Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.

Today, the entire country is an immense University.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

If someone is responsible, it's me.