Quotes from Fidel Castro

The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.

Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.

Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

The prestige of the international financial institutions rates less than zero.

During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.

Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.

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

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

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.

We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.

Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.