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“A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”
― Fidel Castro

“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.”
― Fidel Castro

“...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, My Life: A Spoken Autobiography

“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

“Today, the entire country is an immense University.”
― Fidel Castro

“I will not speak of him as if he were absent, he has not been and he will never be. These are not mere words of consolation. Only those of us who feel it truly and permanently in the depths of our souls can comprehend this. Physical life is ephemeral, it passes inexorably... This truth should be taught to every human being -- that the immortal values of the spirit are above physical life. What sense does life have without these values? What then is it to live? Those who understand this and generously sacrifice their physical life for the sake of good and justice -- how can they die? God is the supreme idea of goodness and justice.”
― Fidel Castro

“Es que, cuando los hombres llevan en la mente un mismo ideal, nada puede incomunicarlos, ni las paredes de una cárcel, ni la tierra de los cementerios, porque un mismo recuerdo, una misma alma, una misma idea, una misma conciencia y dignidad los alienta a todos.”
― Fidel Castro

“The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way moved by concepts related to the interests of the family or of society...Just when science and technology are making incredible advances in all fields, they resort to technology to suppress revolutions and ask the help of science to prevent population growth. In short, the peoples are not to make revolutions, and women are not to give birth. This sums up the philosophy of imperialism.”
― Fidel Castro

“A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.”
― Fidel Castro

“La historia me absolverá!”
― Fidel Castro

“Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.”
― Fidel Castro

“Históricamente, Cuba había escapado siempre de la realidad gracias a la sátira y a la burla. Sin embargo, con Fidel Castro, el sentido del humor fue desapareciendo hasta quedar prohibido; con eso el pueblo cubano perdió una de sus pocas posibilidades de supervivencia; al quitarle la risa le quitaron al pueblo el más profundo sentido de las cosas.”
― Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls

“I can see why people find him [Hugo Chávez] charming. He's very ebullient, as they say. I've heard him make a speech, though, and he has a vice that's always very well worth noticing because it's always a bad sign: he doesn't know when to sit down. He's worse than Castro was. He won't shut up. Then he told me that he didn't think the United States landed on the moon and didn't believe in the existence of Osama bin Laden. He thought all of this was all a put-up job. He's a wacko.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“No fim da entrevista, quando o líder cubano [Fidel Castro] já havia discorrido sobre tema variados, a repórter Lucia Newman quis saber a opinião sobre os cubanos presos em Miami 'acusados de fazer espionagem para o seu governo'. Ele começou dizendo que achava 'assombroso' que os Estados Unidos, 'o país que mais espiona no mundo', acusassem de espionagem justamente a Cuba, 'o país mais espionado do mundo'.”
― Fernando Morais, Os Últimos Soldados da Guerra Fria

“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.”
― Fidel Castro

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
― Che Guevara

“Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?”
― che guevara

“Let the world change you and you can change the world”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“Be realistic, demand the impossible!”
― Che Guevara

“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE”
― Ernesto Che Guevara, Che Guevara Speaks: Selected Speeches and Writings

“The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.”
― Che Guevara

“And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara

“I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“إن الطريق مظلم وحالك فإذا لم تحترق أنت وأنا فمن سينير الطريق”
― Che Guevara

“I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America