Fidel Castro Quotes

Every revolutionary movement ... proposes the greatest number of achievements possible.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. Drive them full speed ahead and keep them on the rails... .

Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.

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

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

The revolution doesn't always look perfect.

Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

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

I want a prepared, organized, orderly and resistless revolution.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

Without destruction of the State, there is no revolution.

Grasp Revolution

If there is to be a revolution, there must be a revolutionary party.

I want the system to change so I think you could call that a revolution.

Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better,we've called the military error.

America is a remarkable place in that social attitudes change almost imperceptibly, and then you wake up the next day and they've changed. But they've been changing all the time.

What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public happiness and liberty through the laws.

Significant and seemingly impossible social and political change happens more often than we think, and it happens more rapidly than we realize. Even the most momentous change is always possible if one finds the right way to make it happen.

You can put people's feet to the fire a bit just by reminding them that we're constantly creating our own history.

In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.

Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.

There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.