Fidel Castro Quotes

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.

Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence.

For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.

It is the conflicting interests of the man and the woman, the home and the shop, the Church and the State, which cause the economic struggle, the war and the strife with which mankind is cursed and which make all long and pray for the reign of peace.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

... the problem isn't that we have inequality. Some inequality is intrinsic to any high-functioning capitalist economy. The problem is that inequality is at historically high levels and getting worse every day. Our country is rapidly becoming less a capitalist society and more a feudal society. Unless our policies change dramatically, the middle class will disappear, and we will be back to late 18th-century France, before the revolution. And so I have a message for my fellow filthy rich, for all of us who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won't last.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

Elites always tell poor people, “Work hard and play by the rules.”

Is the great working class oppressed? Yes, undoubtedly it is. God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little.

Obviously there is not money enough in the world to relieve the suffering of the peoples of the underdeveloped areas, but ... there is, for the first time in history, enough knowledge to do the job.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

If work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

It is property which has made tyrants and not tyrants property.

Control would be exercised by a few over the political conduct of the many by first acquiring that control over the labor and earnings of the great body of people.

Poor men's words have little weight.

The lower middle classes as well as the peasants, … always side with the strongest

History shows that when you have continuing income inequality it is an invitation to class conflict.