Quote

Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

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
Everyone
Radical
Seems
Generally
Many
Conservative
People
Case
Poet
Seem
Cases
Poets
Age
Gotten

More quotes by Fidel Castro

Image
The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
Fidel Castro
Image
Ideas do not need weapons.
Fidel Castro
Image
There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
Fidel Castro
Image
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
Fidel Castro
Image
Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.
Fidel Castro
Image
Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
Fidel Castro
Image
Hysterical? Neuractic? I am all that ain't more than juggernaut!
Fidel Castro
Image
We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
Fidel Castro
Image
Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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
On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
Fidel Castro
Image
Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.
Fidel Castro
Image
Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.
Fidel Castro
Image
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
Image
If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.
Fidel Castro
Image
I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
Fidel Castro
Image
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
Image
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
Fidel Castro