Quotes from Fidel Castro

Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

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.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.

Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.

Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.

Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. 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.