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Fidel Castro Quotes

– “A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.”
– “A revolution is not a bed of roses.”
– “Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.”
– “How can we help President Obama?”
– “I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.”
– “I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.”
– “I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.”
– “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.”

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

– “I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.”

– “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.”

– “I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.”

– “Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.”

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

– “No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!”

– “North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.”

– “The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.”

– “The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.”

– “The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.”

– “They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?”

Niels Bohr Quotes

– “A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.”

– “An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.”

– “An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.”

– “Einstein, stop telling God what to do!”

– “Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.”

– “Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.”

– “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”

– “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”

– “If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.”

– “If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.”

– “It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.”

– “Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.”

– “No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.”

– “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.”

– “Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.”

– “The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.”

– “The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.”

– “There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.”

– “There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”

– “We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.”