Fidel Castro

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• 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

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy