Fidel Castro quotes

Born
August 13, 1926, Birán, Holguin Province, Cuba.

Died
25 November 2016.

Occupation
Military Leader, president.

Fidel Castro was a Cuban politician, dictator, and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.
– Fidel Castro

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.
– Fidel Castro

I was at death’s door, but I came back.
– Fidel Castro

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

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.
– Fidel Castro

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
– Fidel Castro

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
– Fidel Castro

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
– 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 can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.
– Fidel Castro

Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.
– Fidel Castro

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

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.
– Fidel Castro

I am saying that I will neither aspire to nor accept — I repeat, I will neither aspire to, nor accept — the positions of president of the State Council and commander in chief.
– Fidel Castro

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
– Fidel Castro

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
– Fidel Castro

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

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
– Fidel Castro

I believe that aggression is imminent in the next 24 to 72 hours.
– Fidel Castro

I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
– Fidel Castro

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
– Fidel Castro

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
– Fidel Castro

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

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

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
– Fidel Castro

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
– Fidel Castro

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
– Fidel Castro

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.
– Fidel Castro

We will win this battle for life, and not only for your lives, but also for the lives of all children in the world.
– Fidel Castro

Workers and farmers, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the humble, with the humble and for the humble.
– Fidel Castro

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
– Fidel Castro

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

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.
– Fidel Castro

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
– Fidel Castro