Fidel Castro

“No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!”

“They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?”

“The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle.”

“I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.”

“Condemn me, it does not matter. History will absolve me.”

“A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.”

“I began the revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I'd do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.”

“The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.”

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

“Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they are able to convince the great masses.”

“I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.”

“The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.”

“Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.”

“I reached the conclusion long ago that the one last sacrifice I must make for public health is to stop smoking.”

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