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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There is often talk of human rights, but it is also necessary to talk of the rights of humanity. Why should some people walk barefoot, so that others can travel in luxurious cars? Why should some live for thirty-five years, so that others can live fo...

Fidel Castro

If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

Fidel Castro

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

Fidel Castro

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.

Fidel Castro

I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.

Fidel Castro

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

Fidel Castro

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.

Fidel Castro

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

Fidel Castro

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

Fidel Castro

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

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

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

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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