Fidel Castro Quotes

• "A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."
• "A revolution is not a bed of roses."
• "Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away."
• "I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life."
• "I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement."
• "I began revolution with 82 men. If I had do it again, I'd 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."
• "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."
• "I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ."
• "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."
• "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."
• "If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism."
• "In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty."
• "Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour."
• "More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World."
• "The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong."
• "The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters."
• "The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs."
• "If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism."
• "History will absolve me"
• "I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure [Jesus Christ]."
• "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."