Che Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture. Here are some of the Che Guevara quotes.
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.”
“The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.”
“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”
“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.”
“I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”
“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
“Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.”
“Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.”
Che Guevara
“Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.”
“The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.”
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“Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.”
“Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.”
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“I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.”
“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.”
“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.”
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“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.”
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“I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world’s problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.”
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“Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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