Che Guevara (1928–1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
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| Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats. -- Che Guevara |
Here Is A Collection Of Che Guevara Most Inspiring Quotes: Che Guevara Quotes About Education, Life, and Friendship. Inspirational and Motivational Che Guevara Quotes. Quotes And Sayings On Passion, Poverty, Leadership and Socialism By Guevara.
Ernesto Che Guevara Quotes and Sayings
Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am... only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.
Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
Be realistic, demand the impossible!
We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.
Let the world change you and you can change the world.
And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.
I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.
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| Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart? -- Che Guevara |
I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.
Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.
There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.
There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.
A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.
The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.
I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel.
The best form of saying is being.
One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.
The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day.
This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.
I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.
Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another.
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| The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. -- Che Guevara |
What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.
Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.
Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.
I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two 'I's' struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.
We must eliminate all newspapers; we cannot make a revolution with free press. Newspapers are instruments of the oligarchy.
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
The guerrilla fighters should be required to go to bed and get up at fixed hours. Games that have no social function and that hurt the morale of the troops and the consumption of alcoholic drinks should both be prohibited.
How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.
I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.
I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.
Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.
The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.
Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.
I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.
It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.
It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.
A political event was that I met Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary. He is a young, intelligent guy, very sure of himself and extraordinarily audacious; I think we hit it off well.
The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.
Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.
We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.
Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.
Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!
Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser.
Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.
To accomplish much you must first lose everything.
The best form of saying is doing.
Words that do not match deeds are not important.
I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.
Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.
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