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Quotes from University of Havana address — Fidel Castro

1926–2016 Cuba

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Man is born egotistical, a result of the conditioning of nature. Nature fills us with instincts; it is education that fills us with virtues.

University of Havana address (2005)

It is amazing that in spite of the differences between human beings, they can become as one in a single instant or they can be millions, and they can be a million strong just through their ideas.

University of Havana address (2005)

I would dare say that today this species is facing a very real and true danger of extinction, and no one can be sure, listen to this well, no one can be sure that it will survive this danger.

University of Havana address (2005)

All sense of dialectics is lost when someone believes that today's economy is identical to the economy 50 or 100 or 150 years ago, or that it is identical to the one in Lenin’s day or to the time when Karl Marx lived.

University of Havana address (2005)

Here is a conclusion I've come to after many years: among all the errors we may have committed, the greatest of them all was that we believed that someone really knew something about socialism, or that someone actually knew how to build socialism.

University of Havana address (2005)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Fidel Castro (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.