Liberty vs Tyranny



Fidel Castro Quotes

Quotes by Fidel Castro


Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz - communist dictator of Cuba from 1959 to 2008
Political Tyranny



"How can we help President Obama?"

"Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away."

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

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

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

"he (Bush) threatens humanity with World War III, this time using atomic weapons."

"The unbelievable torture applied to prisoners in Iraq has rendered the world speechless,"

"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity."

"One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates."

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

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

"Let's hope that, in Cuba's case, God does not 'instruct' Mr. Bush to attack our country but that he rather inspires him to avoid this colossal mistake!"

"On Thursday, before the United States Congress, the idea was designed of a world military dictatorship under the exclusive rule of force, irrespective of any international laws or institutions."

"The first victims of whatever military actions are undertaken will be the billions of people living in the poor and underdeveloped world with their unbelievable economic and social problems,"

“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."

"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."

"Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!"

"When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me."

 

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Liberty-vs-Tyranny.com