Fidel Castro Quotes (104 Quotes)

For every word you have said -- even those I might disagree with -- on behalf of all the Cuban people, Holy Father, I thank you

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

Never has the revolution had so much unity, strength and experience as today,

We are mobilizing precisely to thwart the plans of those who don't want the child to return, ... This is not a demonstration against the United States and much less against the American people.

If we are there it is because many people protested against that ridiculous rejection. We shall fight square and fair, despite the fact that they have stolen some good baseball players from us.

Those Anti-Cubans who attack us Cubans don't represent more than a fraction of 1 percent. ... You the foreign news media have helped create them.

We are going to discuss, let's get an agreement, and really help each other mutually in cases of disaster,

Meanwhile, the memory of U. S. presidential complicity in assassination plots is very nearly dead. There have been no references, post the Robertson initiative, to the old Special Group ... on the desirability of not spreading knowledge of covert operations any wider than absolutely necessary, if we are to preserve the principal of deniability.

For us, it's an honor to be friends with North Korea ... and Iran.

Where is the ethic, the justification, the respect for the most basic human rights and the common sense of such policies

I live and perceive again the details as if everything were happening at this moment,

There was illiteracy, the workers were being expelled from the factories, and the best lands where in the hands of the rich. That's why the revolution triumphed.

It's nonsense, absolute nonsense, that the United States refuses to have a drug interdiction agreement for fear of the raving and ranting of a group of people in Miami, even though we're willing to do it in exchange for nothing,

Asked about his vice president's statements, Chavez said, we haven't heard anything. ... only God can punish crimes of such magnitude.

He is very much a fool. He doesn't know who the Cuban baseball players are, or that they are Olympic and world champions. If he knew, he would know something about this country's government.

On behalf of the children, of all the companions there, he sends a special greeting to all our people,

to force us to surrender through hunger and illness ... as part of a monstrous, fascist plan.

Life has its ups and downs, you can fall down, but you can also get up. I have friends, my daughters and a very great spirit of struggle which is comforting in finding another opportunity. My family has helped me a lot along this road now I wake up every morning and have the same ambitions that I had a while back.

This graduation was just a dream nearly seven years ago, ... Today is proof of the capacity of human beings to reach the most lofty goals.

For now, ... get me a New York Times reporter up here.

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

This mafia not only operates from Miami. It has set up an organization that operates from Mexico, using remote places for new routes.

We will be there, but I would never have thought I would have to answer that question.

We have just received 12 locomotives from China. They are simply the best our country has received. They are the most modern, most efficient and of best value.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

a model country that protects the lives of its citizens.

we remember forever for his deep caring, support and solidarity toward the Cuban people and our revolution.

to turn it into a body which is truly representative of the interest of all the peoples of the world.

And now, suddenly you discover that almost everything is behind you, and that life has its limits,

We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.

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.

The memory, the spirit, and the unforgettable presence of Che are presiding over this Fifth Party Congress.

I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis . . . discovering Marxism . . . was like finding a map in the forest.

I know that Venezuela is living moments of great expectation and hope. I want to share those hopes with the people of Venezuela.

The pope is our guest. ... We will do everything to the hilt to ensure that the visit will be historic,

In the army of the workers there must be discipline there must be comradeship, there must be unity you are the officers of this army, you are the leaders.

It was Castro trying to drive home the point that electricity was how his country was going to beat the fuel crisis,

Forty-eight hours have passed and we have received no response to our offer. We will wait patiently,

If it weren't for that absurd and ridiculous embargo, the United States could receive vaccinations and other medical procedures from Cuba that could help save American lives.

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

There will be no escape for those who want to live like parasites at any price, at any cost, outside the law,

As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

It would be a crime not to go to the appeal, ... The passports are ready and of course the airplane is ready.

Little Elian will get back his country, his family, his school, his schoolmates, his school desk,

People have asked me how I can support Fidel if he's a dictator, ... But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy.

driven to death by that monstrous invention of the United States called the Cuban Adjustment Act.

The much publicized dissidence or alleged opposition in Cuba does not exist except in the overheated imagination of the Cuban-American mob and White House and State Department bureaucrats.

also means defying the powerful forces inside and outside our country.

They are guilty with their Cuban Adjustment Act and with their broadcasts and exhortations to leave illegally ... of the dozens, maybe hundreds of people, who die in those attempts, ... They don't give them visas. Then they receive them as heroes.