Quotes from Fidel Castro

Humanity can learn from those who have broken their chains. Those who have chained humanity for centuries cannot teach humanity anything.

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We have the lowest student-teacher ratio and spend five times as much on schools than war - the opposite of what the United States does. [explaining why Cuba has the highest literacy in the world]

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 single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

Es que, cuando los hombres llevan en la mente un mismo ideal, nada puede incomunicarlos, ni las paredes de una cárcel, ni la tierra de los cementerios, porque un mismo recuerdo, una misma alma, una misma idea, una misma conciencia y dignidad los alienta a todos.

I know that imprisonment will be harder for me than it has ever been for anyone, filled with cowardly threats and hideous cruelty. But I do not fear prison, as I do not fear the fury of the miserable tyrant who took the lives of 70 of my comrades. Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

To the accusation that Cuba wants to export its revolution, we reply: Revolutions are not exported, they are made by the people.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

Today you cannot talk about a United Nations system;… what actually exists is a domination system over nearly all countries in the world by a small group of powers under the aegis of the United States, determining all issues.

inspired my own life. Victory has thousands father but failure always find itself an orphan. --Fidel Castro

I view Che, furthermore, as a moral giant who grows day by day, whose image, whose strength, whose influence has multiplied throughout the world. How could he fit below a tombstone? How could he fit in this plaza? How could he fit solely in our beloved but small island? Only the world he dreamed of, which he lived and fought for, is big enough for him.

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

The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.

Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.

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

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

The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.