Quote

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

Fidel Castro

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Fidel Castro
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: August 13
Died: 2016
Died: November 25
Former Prime Minister Of Cuba
Journalist
Lawyer
Partisan
Politician
Revolutionary
Statesperson
Biran
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
Castro
Gold
Events
Winning
Assassination
Would
Olympic
Surviving
Attempts
Medal
Event

More quotes by Fidel Castro

Image
It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
Fidel Castro
Image
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
Fidel Castro
Image
Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
Fidel Castro
Image
We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
Fidel Castro
Image
Why do some people have to go barefoot so that others can drive luxury cars? Why are some people able to live only 35 years in order that others can live 70 years? Why do some people have to be miserably poor in order that others can be extravagantly rich? I speak for all the children in the world who don't even have a piece of bread.
Fidel Castro
Image
You Americans keep saying that Cuba is ninety miles from the United States. I say that the United States is ninety miles from Cuba and for us, that is worse.
Fidel Castro
Image
A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital - which is the interest - returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.
Fidel Castro
Image
How can we help President Obama?
Fidel Castro
Image
...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
Image
There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
Fidel Castro
Image
No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
Fidel Castro
Image
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro
Image
There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
Fidel Castro
Image
If someone is responsible, it's me.
Fidel Castro
Image
If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.
Fidel Castro
Image
I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
Fidel Castro
Image
I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
Fidel Castro
Image
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.
Fidel Castro
Image
Hysterical? Neuractic? I am all that ain't more than juggernaut!
Fidel Castro
Image
I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
Fidel Castro