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Fidel Castro [1926-2016] American

Rank: 101
Statesman, Former Prime Minister of Cuba

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba for 47 years as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2006.

Politics, Age, Death, Failure, Faith, Future, Success, War, Work

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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.	War	101
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.	Politics	102
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.		103
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.		104
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.	Politics	105
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.	Death, Future	106
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.		107
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.	Age	108
I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.		109
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!		110
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?	Failure, Success	111
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.	Work	112
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.		113
Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.		114
There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.		115
I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.		116
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.	Faith	117
I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.		118
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.		119
The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.		120
North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.		121
I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.		122
Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.		123
How can we help President Obama?		124
I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.		125
I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.		126
A revolution is not a bed of roses.		201
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.		202
I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.		203
Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.		204
I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.		205
Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.		206
I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.		207
Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.		208

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