They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? Fidel Castro More Quotes by Fidel Castro More Quotes From Fidel Castro I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life. Fidel Castro cold lasts war A large percentage of those living in developed societies are told what brand of soda they should drink, what cigarettes they should smoke, what clothes and shoes they should wear, what they should eat and what brand of food they should buy. Their political ideas are supplied in the same way. Every year a trillion dollars is spent on advertising. Fidel Castro shoes years ideas The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution Fidel Castro revolution revolutionary change The percentage of mentally disturbed people in the United States is very high. From the time the American gets up in the morning, he feels as if someone is trying to influence his will in some way: he is a person with a thousand pressures. The Americans live under a great strain ... and have great feelings of frustration. Fidel Castro frustration morning people 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 duty boots thinking I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. Fidel Castro fake-people hypocrisy war 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 vision christian people A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past. Fidel Castro bed-of-roses bed rose The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been. Fidel Castro idiocy competition ignorance Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet. Fidel Castro hunger-and-poverty war people 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 birthday men thinking When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me. Fidel Castro girl boys father We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war. Fidel Castro men war children We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also. Fidel Castro afros nations latin 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 technology philosophy science 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, illnesses, poverty or hunger. Fidel Castro poverty weapons ignorance We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. Fidel Castro revolution politics military Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist. Fidel Castro stills sorry I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short. Fidel Castro late speech should The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been. Fidel Castro competition ignorance mean