Ernesto Che Guevara > Quotes

“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.”
― Ernesto Guevara

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
― Che Guevara

“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.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?”
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“Be realistic, demand the impossible!”
― Che Guevara

“Let the world change you and you can change the world”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.”
― Che Guevara

“I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“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.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara

“I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.”
― Ernesto Guevara

“Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.”
― Che Guevara

“I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America

“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.”
― Che Guevara, Che Guevara Talks to Young People

“HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE”
― Ernesto Che Guevara, Che Guevara Speaks: Selected Speeches and Writings

“There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“إن الطريق مظلم وحالك فإذا لم تحترق أنت وأنا فمن سينير الطريق”
― Che Guevara

“The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.”
― Che Guevara

“I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“After graduation, due to special circumstances and perhaps also to my character, I began to travel throughout America, and I became acquainted with all of it. Except for Haiti and Santo Domingo, I have visited, to some extent, all the other Latin American countries. Because of the circumstances in which I traveled, first as a student and later as a doctor, I came into close contact with poverty, hunger and disease; with the inability to treat a child because of lack of money; with the stupefaction provoked by the continual hunger and punishment, to the point that a father can accept the loss of a son as an unimportant accident, as occurs often in the downtrodden classes of our American homeland. And I began to realize at that time that there were things that were almost as important to me as becoming famous for making a significant contribution to medical science: I wanted to help those people.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“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.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara

“The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.”
― Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

“The best form of saying is being”
― Che Guevarra, Passages de la guerre révolutionnaire : le Congo

“A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.”
― Che Guevara

“I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...”
― Ernesto Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

“الثوار يملئون العالم ضجيجا كي لا ينام العالم بثقله على أجساد الفقراء”
― Che Guevara

“إنني أحس على وجهي بألم كل صفعة تُوجّه إلىمظلوم في هذه الدنيا، فأينما وجد الظلم فذاك هو وطني”
― Che Guevara

“The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara