- Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
- A revolution is not a trail of roses.... A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past.
- I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
- I am a Marxist-Leninist, and I will be a Marxist-Leninist until the last days of my life.
- We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
- Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
- 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.
- North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
- Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
- Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
Fidel Castro quotes
