Quotes by Fidel Castro

About Fidel Castro:

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban politician and revolutionary who served as Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and then President from 1976 to 2008. Politically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration Cuba became a one-party socialist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society. Internationally, Castro was the Secretary-General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1979 to 1983 and from 2006 to 2008.
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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

...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.

Fidel Castro

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

Fidel Castro

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

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

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

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

Fidel Castro

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

Fidel Castro

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

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

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

Fidel Castro

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

Fidel Castro

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

Fidel Castro

How can we help President Obama?

Fidel Castro

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

Fidel Castro

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

Fidel Castro

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

Fidel Castro

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

Fidel Castro

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

Fidel Castro

Author Bio

  • NameFidel Castro
  • Descriptionformer First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
  • AliasesFidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
  • BornAugust 13, 1926
  • CountryCuba
  • ProfessionPolitician; Lawyer; Soldier
  • AwardsHero Of The Soviet Union; Order Of Lenin; Lenin Peace Prize; Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years Of Victory In The Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"; Order Of The October Revolution; Order Of The White Lion; Order Of The Star Of Romania; Order Of Georgi Dimitrov; Order Of Polonia Restituta; Order Of Jamaica; Jamaican Order Of Merit; Order Of Karl Marx; Order Of The Aztec Eagle; Order Of Klement Gottwald; Order Of Merit Of Duarte, Sanchez And Mella; Order Of Good Hope; National Order Of Mali; Order Of Prince Yaroslav The Wise; Order Of The Liberator; Order Of The Crown Of The Realm; Order Of The Quetzal; Order Of The Companions Of O. R. Tambo; Order Of Merit (Ukraine); Star Of People's Friendship; Confucius Peace Prize; Al-Gaddafi International Prize For Human Rights