Fidel Castro Quotes

I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.

If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.

The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.

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

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

I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.

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

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution

This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.

All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

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

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

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.

There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

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

I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

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

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

We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.

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

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.