Fidel Castro Quotes

"We will talk and we will help ourselves in a dignified manner in cases of disaster,"

"These doctors could all already be there providing their services,"

"It was [Castro] trying to drive home the point that electricity was how his country was going to beat the fuel crisis,"

"I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. 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."

"to turn it into a body which is truly representative of the interest of all the peoples of the world."

"Where is the ethic, the justification, the respect for the most basic human rights and the common sense of such policies?"

"The memory, the spirit, and the unforgettable presence of Che are presiding over this Fifth Party Congress."

"I repeat my warmest congratulations and the desire to continue strengthening the existing relations between our two parties, governments and peoples,"

"In the army of the workers there must be discipline; there must be comradeship, there must be unity; you are the officers of this army, you are the leaders."

"A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past."

"Thank you for coming to reinforce us in the difficult struggle that we are undergoing today, to preserve the ideas that you fought so hard for."

"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure [Jesus Christ]."

"Humanity will preserve an emotional memory of the tireless work of His Holiness John Paul II in favor of peace, justice and solidarity among all people,"

"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity."

"More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World."

"The much publicized dissidence or alleged opposition in Cuba does not exist except in the overheated imagination of the Cuban-American mob and White House and State Department bureaucrats."

"to force us to surrender through hunger and illness ... as part of a monstrous, fascist plan."

"We are not here to say goodbye to Che and his comrades. We are here to welcome them. I see Che and his men as a battalion of invincible combatants, who have come to fight alongside us and to write new pages of history and of glory."

"I am appealing to their intelligence."

"I was closer to heaven here,"