Explore Quotes by Fidel Castro

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

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

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.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

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.

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

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

How can we help President Obama?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

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.

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