Quotes by Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz; August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016) was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. A Marxist–Leninist, Castro also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011.

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Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.

VenezuelaFidel Castro
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

BeardsFidel Castro
 
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Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

CapitalismFidel Castro
 
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The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.

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

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

CapitalismFidel Castro
 
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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.

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

Capitalism, Africa, Asia, SocialismFidel Castro
 
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