Fidel Castro

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

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

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

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

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.

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

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

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

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

How can we help President Obama?

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

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

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

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