...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
Interpretation
True quality of life is defined by knowledge, culture, and values rather than material possessions.
In this quote, Fidel Castro emphasizes that the essence of a fulfilling life goes beyond mere survival needs such as food, shelter, and clothing. Instead, he argues that true quality of life is rooted in one's knowledge, cultural experiences, and the values they uphold, suggesting that an enriched mind and spirit are paramount to human existence.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of education, one can say, 'As Fidel Castro noted, the quality of life goes beyond material needs; it lies in our knowledge and values.'
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.
We do not need the empire to give us anything.
The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.
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.
When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.
I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.
The discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences.
Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different styles, dialects, character names, and conceptions of God and was subjected to haphazard editing that left it with many contradictions, duplications and non-sequiturs.
Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.
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