A successful gyration hinges on not just how you wage war , but how you maintain words . Fidel Castro — whose empty words helped turn the island of Cuba against its democratically - elect governance — is a survive will to that .
Castro , who held mastery over Cuba for half a 100 , is not bang for his pithiness . Indeed , over the trend of his life story he has often give three - hour talking to , and will answer a simple “ yes ” or “ no ” interrogation with an total defense of the impoverished and a searing indictment of capitalism .
Still , rhetoric is not reality . The latter finally arrange in for the Cuban hoi polloi in the 1970s , when Cuba became the poor state in the Soviet bloc , molest with disease and totalitarianism . The revolution come , thanks in part to Castro ’s words , but it did not produce the paradise about which Castro waxed poetically .
“One of the greatest benefits of the Revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.” - 2003, to director Oliver Stone in the documentaryComandante
With that in mind , here ’s a smattering of the most intense Fidel Castro quotes you ’ll ever read :
On the revolution’s rewards:
On Santa Claus:
On his similarity to Jesus Christ:
On capitalism and poverty:
On revolution:
On his use of violence:
On George W. Bush:
On George W. Bush, again:
On Jeb Bush:
On his beard:
On the future of US-Cuba relations:
On religion:
On his health:
On combatting imperialism:
On a good speech:
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“The leading symbol of the hagiography of US mercantilism.” - 1998
“I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.” - 1985
“Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.” - 1991
“A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past." - 1961, speech on the second anniversary of the Cuban Revolution
“Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.” - 1953, at his trial for the raid on Moncada Barracks
“For a country that can read, write and think, no one can make a more eloquent criticism of the empire than Bush himself.” - 2008
“You cannot utter the word democracy, because, among other reasons, everyone in the world knows your ascent to the US presidency was a fraud.” - 2004
“Forgive me for using the term ‘fat little brother’ … It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don’t you think? I’m doing this for the gentleman’s health.” - 2005
“I’m not thinking to cut my beard, because … my beard means many things to my country. When we have fulfilled our promise of good government, I will cut my beard.” - 1959 interview with CBS, 30 days after the start of the Revolution
“United States will come to talk to us when they have a black president and the world has a Latin American pope.” - 1973
“If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.” - 2007
“I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.” - 1992
“I have concluded – maybe a little late – that speeches must be short.” - 2000
