All Sayings

25,004 sayings found from the Modern era

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

— Leon Trotsky 1938
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As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the “sacredness of human life.” We were revolutionaries in opposition, and have remained revolutionaries in power. To make the individual sacred we must …

— Leon Trotsky 1938
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As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the “sacredness of human life.” We were revolutionaries in opposition, and have remained revolutionaries in power. To make the individual sacred we must …

— Leon Trotsky 1938
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Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.

— Leon Trotsky Early 1920s
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Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.

— Leon Trotsky Early 1920s
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If this revolution falls, what we will have here in Cuba is a hell. Hell itself. Because by the time there will be a million, a million and a half people with no work, people who will not believe in anybody anymore, then it will be a chaos. Trust me,…

— Fidel Castro 1959
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If this revolution falls, what we will have here in Cuba is a hell. Hell itself. Because by the time there will be a million, a million and a half people with no work, people who will not believe in anybody anymore, then it will be a chaos. Trust me,…

— Fidel Castro 1959
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I'm not thinking of cutting my beard, because I'm accustomed to my beard and my beard means many things to my country. When we have fulfilled our promise of good government, I will cut my beard.

— Fidel Castro 1959
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I'm not thinking of cutting my beard, because I'm accustomed to my beard and my beard means many things to my country. When we have fulfilled our promise of good government, I will cut my beard.

— Fidel Castro 1959
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

— Fidel Castro 1985
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Forgive me for using the term 'fat little brother' ... It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don't you think? I'm doing this for the gentleman's health.

— Fidel Castro 2005
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Forgive me for using the term 'fat little brother' ... It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don't you think? I'm doing this for the gentleman's health.

— Fidel Castro 2005
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United States will come to talk to us when they have a black president and the world has a Latin American pope.

— Fidel Castro 1973
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United States will come to talk to us when they have a black president and the world has a Latin American pope.

— Fidel Castro 1973
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I have a heart of steel.

— Fidel Castro 1972
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I have a heart of steel.

— Fidel Castro 1972
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We do not know anything about this. We, gentlemen, to tell the truth, do not even know what to charge.

— Fidel Castro 1990
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We do not know anything about this. We, gentlemen, to tell the truth, do not even know what to charge.

— Fidel Castro 1990
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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

— Fidel Castro Unknown, likely post-revolution
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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

— Fidel Castro Unknown, likely post-revolution
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