Fidel Castro Quotes

"The revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters."
-Fidel Castro in Revolution quotes.

"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 in Ideas quotes.

"More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World."
-Fidel Castro in Suffering quotes.

"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 in Revolution quotes.

"A revolution is a struggle between the past and the future."
-Fidel Castro

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

"We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case."
-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

"Condemn me, it does not matter, history will absolve me."
-Fidel Castro

"As I have said before, 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 believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young."
-Fidel Castro