Quotes from Fidel Castro

Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.

The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

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

Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.

We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

Forgive me for using the term 'fat little brother'. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don't you think? I'm doing this for the gentleman's health.

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.

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

Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.

The Arab population of Palestine are victims of genocidal actions; their lands are confiscated or deprived of water supplies in the semi-desert areas, and their homes are destroyed with heavy wrecking equipment.

What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.

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

Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.