Quotes by Fidel Castro

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
– Fidel Castro
A revolution is not a bed of roses.
– Fidel Castro
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
– Fidel Castro
I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
– Fidel Castro
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
– 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 never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
– 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
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
If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.
– Fidel Castro
In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
– Fidel Castro
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
– Fidel Castro
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
– Fidel Castro
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
– Fidel Castro
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
– Fidel Castro
The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
– Fidel Castro
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
– Fidel Castro
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
– Fidel Castro
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
– Fidel Castro