The quotations of

Fidel Castro

Cuban politician, author and revolutionary

1926–2016

5 quotes, most often on Economics and Politics.

A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past.
Speech on the second anniversary of the triumph of the revolution (2 January 1961)
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the moral, nor the ethics, nor the will to solve the problems of poverty.
Speech (26 July 1991)
- Economics
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Statement of 1991, during the fall of USSR.
- Economics
- Politics
Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
Closing words of his defense at the Moncada trial (16 October 1953), published as History Will Absolve Me
- History
The first duty of the revolutionaries is to tell the truth. Fooling the people, promoting illusions, always brings the worst consequences.
Camp Columbia, Havana (Jan. 8th, 1959), Fidel Castro Reader, pp. 133
- Politics
- Truth & Lies

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