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

How can we help President Obama?
Fidel Castro

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

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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 find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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

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

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

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

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