Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration the Republic of Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society. May these Fidel Castro Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!” Fidel Castro
2. We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.” Fidel Castro
3. “We will talk and we will help ourselves in a dignified manner in cases of disaster.” Fidel Castro
4. “Ideas do not need weapons.” Fidel Castro
5. “Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.” Fidel Castro
6. “I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it’s my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.” Fidel Castro
7. “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
8. “I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.” Fidel Castro
9. “Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.” Fidel Castro
10. “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
11. “If someone is responsible, it’s me.” Fidel Castro
12. “A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.” Fidel Castro
13. “Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.” Fidel Castro
14. “We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.” Fidel Castro
15. “The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.” Fidel Castro
16. “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
17. “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
18. “Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.” Fidel Castro
19. “I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.” Fidel Castro
20. “What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.” Fidel Castro
21. “I am someone who’s been in politics for 43 years and I know what I’m doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.” Fidel Castro
22. “Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.” Fidel Castro
23. “We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.” Fidel Castro
24. “Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.” Fidel Castro
25. “The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.” Fidel Castro
26. “All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.” Fidel Castro
27. “Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.” Fidel Castro
28. “Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.” Fidel Castro
29. “I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since [it] is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.” Fidel Castro
30. “The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.” Fidel Castro
31. “I reached the conclusion long ago that the one last sacrifice I must make for [Cuban] public health is to stop smoking. I haven’t really missed it that much.” Fidel Castro
32. “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, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.” Fidel Castro
33. “Why do some people have to go barefoot so that others can drive luxury cars? Why are some people able to live only 35 years in order that others can live 70 years? Why do some people have to be miserably poor in order that others can be extravagantly rich? I speak for all the children in the world who don’t even have a piece of bread.” Fidel Castro
34. “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
35. “Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.” Fidel Castro
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