We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out. — Fidel Castro

The revolution … is a dictatorship of The exploited against The exploiters. — Fidel Castro

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

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. — Fidel Castro

One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates. — Fidel Castro

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real! — Fidel Castro

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

A revolution is not a bed of roses. — Fidel Castro

Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power. — Fidel Castro

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

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. — Fidel Castro

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep. — Fidel Castro

My modest suggestion is that he reflects (on the u.s. role in south africa and cuba’s in angola) and not now try to elaborate theories about cuban politics. — Fidel Castro

U.s. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe. — Fidel Castro

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

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore. — Fidel Castro

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. — Fidel Castro

Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible! — Fidel Castro

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism. — Fidel Castro

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might. — Fidel Castro

Cuba has the cleanest and most–educated prostitutes in the world. — Fidel Castro

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

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

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] — Fidel Castro

We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace. — Fidel Castro

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. — Fidel Castro

I wIsh bolIvIa all the love and admIratIon of the world, our Island has remembered the chIldren of the struggle, as you suffered. — Fidel Castro

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. — Fidel Castro

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

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty. — Fidel Castro

Inspired my own life. Victory has thousands father but failure always find itself an orphan.––Fidel Castro — Fidel Castro

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

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. — Fidel Castro

Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing. — Fidel Castro

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. — Fidel Castro

The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust. — Fidel Castro

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

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. — Fidel Castro

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises. — Fidel Castro

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear. — Fidel Castro

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty. — Fidel Castro