Fidel Castro Quotes

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

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

There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.

Ideas do not need weapons.

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

I am someone who’s been in politics for 43 years and I know what I’m doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.

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

A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital – which is the interest – returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.

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 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.

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

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