A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

— Fidel Castro

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

— Fidel Castro

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Brian, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Brian.

— Fidel Castro

Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.

— Fidel Castro

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

— Fidel Castro

Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

— Fidel Castro

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

— Fidel Castro

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

— Fidel Castro

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

— Fidel Castro

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