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This country ... abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell.

— Fidel Castro

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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

History Will Absolve Me (1953)

Capitalism is a system based on blind, destructive and tyrannical laws imposed on the human species.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the moral, nor the ethics, nor the will to solve the problems of poverty.

Marx and Lenin represent precisely the two human personalities that will mark the passage between prehistory and the history of mankind.

Democratic Korea, its leaders and its people will always live in our feelings of revolutionaries, patriots and fighters for the triumph of socialism.

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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