Fidel Castro Quotes

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

"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."

"The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters."

"Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!"

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

"I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice."

"Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!"

"I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement."

"The Arab population of Palestine are victims of genocidal actions; their lands are confiscated or deprived of water supplies in the semi-desert areas, and their homes are destroyed with heavy wrecking equipment."

"Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me."

"A revolution is not a bed of roses."

"Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour."

"How can we help President Obama?"

"There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust."

"Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable."

"Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times."

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

"Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism."

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

"Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war."

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

"The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all."

"No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!"

"The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs."

"The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist."

"Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist."

"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ."

"None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers."

"The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other."

"Defending peace is the duty of all."