Collected Meditations
Showing 131 quotesThe last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.— Fidel Castro
The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.— Fidel Castro
NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.— Fidel Castro
Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.— Fidel Castro
Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.— Fidel Castro
I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.— Fidel Castro
It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.— Fidel Castro
If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.— Fidel Castro
We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.— Fidel Castro
None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.— Fidel Castro
At times, I've referred to Christ's miracles, and have said, 'Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.'— Fidel Castro