Explore Quotes by Fidel Castro

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

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.

I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.

If someone is responsible, it's 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.

Forgive me for using the term 'fat little brother'. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don't you think? I'm doing this for the gentleman's health.

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.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

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

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

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

Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.

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

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.

The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way moved by concepts related to the interests of the family or of society...Just when science and technology are making incredible advances in all fields, they resort to technology to suppress revolutions and ask the help of science to prevent population growth. In short, the peoples are not to make revolutions, and women are not to give birth. This sums up the philosophy of imperialism.

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

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

I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis...; discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest.