Fidel Castro Quotes

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

We have enough votes to run the country. And when the people say, We've had enough, we are going to take over.

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

The tea has been thrown overboard. The revolution of 1860 has been initiated.

One cannot pretend that the sending of a dozen men to a country will lead to a revolution.

I think, you're not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it's not with an X on a piece of paper, it's with an X on someone's forehead.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: It's painful, and it's the last resort for nations.

Revolutions are always verbose.

It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts it has its laws

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

We must continually stimulate the living politics of the street...it will be our task to try and break it (elections for the National Assembly) up by force.

If the Kaiser does not abdicate the social revolution is inevitable. I do not want it—in fact I hate it like sin.

Patriots have been incapable of removing one brick from this structure by “working within the system.” … There are two paths open to those who love the great America of their forefathers.

In Prussia it is only kings who make revolutions.

The people want a blood-and-thunder campaign.

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written word but by the spoken word.

The National Revolution has begun.

Fire in the lake: The image of revolution.

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

Without destruction of the State, there is no revolution.

If revolution insists upon overturning established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment. There is no place for it in America.