Fidel Castro quotes - page 4

Fidel Castro was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister and later President of Cuba. A key figure in the Cuban Revolution, his leadership transformed the country into a one-party socialist state. He became internationally recognized for his defiance of U.S. policies and for shaping Cuban society for decades. Here are 119 of his quotes:

The economic management and planning system was not set up so that we can play at capitalism; and some people are shamefully playing at capitalism; we know this, we see it, and this must be set right.

Fidel Castro

It is really impressive what a filth system capitalism is, that can't guarantee its own people employment, nor health, nor adequate education; that cannot prevent youth from being corrupted by drugs, gamble, and all kind of vices.

Fidel Castro

We are speaking of life, because whenever we speak of universities, we speak of life. What are you? If I were asked that question right now, I would have to say that you are life, you are symbols of life.

Fidel Castro

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.

Fidel Castro

We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.

Fidel Castro

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

Fidel Castro

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

Fidel Castro

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.

Fidel Castro

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

Fidel Castro

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

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The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

Fidel Castro

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

Fidel Castro

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

Fidel Castro

Las ideas no necesitan ni de las armas, en la medida en que sean capaces de conquistar a las grandes masas. (Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.)

Fidel Castro

Here is a conclusion I've come to after many years: among all the errors we may have committed, the greatest of them all was that we believed that someone really knew something about socialism, or that someone actually knew how to build socialism.

Fidel Castro

I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger.

Fidel Castro

Man is born egotistical, a result of the conditioning of nature. Nature fills us with instincts; it is education that fills us with virtues.

Fidel Castro

I would dare say that today this species is facing a very real and true danger of extinction, and no one can be sure, listen to this well, no one can be sure that it will survive this danger.

Fidel Castro

Capitalism-and I say it with such gusto-capitalism is so obsolete that it is dying by itself.

Fidel Castro

Revolution is the sense of the historical moment; it is changing everything that must be changed.

Fidel Castro

It is amazing that in spite of the differences between human beings, they can become as one in a single instant or they can be millions, and they can be a million strong just through their ideas.

Fidel Castro