quotes by Che Guevara

"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine."
— 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."
— Che Guevara

"Let the world change you and you can change the world"
— Che Guevara

"HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE"
— Che Guevara (Che Guevara Speaks: Selected Speeches and Writings)

"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."
— Che Guevara

"Silence is argument carried out by other means."
— Che Guevara

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

"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves."
— Che Guevara

"I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man."
— Che Guevara

"I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people."
— Che Guevara (The Motorcycle Diaries)

"Be realistic, demand the impossible!"
— Che Guevara

"El revolucionario vedadero es guiado por gran sentimientos de amor."
— Che Guevara

"إن الطريق مظلم وحالك فإذا لم تحترق أنت وأنا فمن سينير الطريق"
— 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."
— Che Guevara

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

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

" لا يهمني أين ومتى سأموت بقدر ما يهمني ان يبقى الوطن"
— Che Guevara

""لن يكون لدينا ما نحيا من أجله .. إن لم نكن على استعداد أن نموت من أجله"."
— 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."
— Che Guevara

"The best form of saying as being"
— Che Guevara (Passages de la guerre révolutionnaire)

"Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that ancient melancholy of smoke, unifying everything with its grayish monotones, a perfect coupling with the gray mountain days."
— Che Guevara

"...I also know - and this won't alter the course of history or your personal view of me - that you will die with a clenched fist and a tense jaw, the epitome of hatred and struggle, because you are not a symbol (some inanimate example) but a genuine member of the society to be destroyed; the spirit of the beehive speaks through your mouth and motivates your actions. You are as useful as I am, but you are not aware of how useful your contribution is to the society that sacrifices you."
— Che Guevara

"Dejeme decirie,
a risego de parecer ridiculo,
que el revolucionario verdadero
esta guiado por grandes sentimientos de amor.

Let me say,
at the risk of seeming ridiculous,
that the true revolutionary
is guided by great feelings of love."
— Che Guevara

"«Se tremes diante de qualquer injustiça, estejas onde for, então somos companheiros» "
— Che Guevara

""الثورة قوية كالفولاذ، حمراء كالجمر، باقية كالسنديان، عميقة كحبنا الوحشي للوطن"
"
— Che Guevara

""الثوار يملئون العالم ضجيجا كي لا ينام العالم بثقله على أجساد الفقراء"
"
— Che Guevara

"The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed sediment of a muddy lake when you touch its bottom."
— Che Guevara

"This is the Cuzco asking you to pull on your armor and, mounted on the ample back of a powerful horse, cleave a path through the defenseless flesh of a naked Indian flock whose human wall collapses and disappears beneath the four hooves of the galloping beast."
— Che Guevara

"And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place."
— Che Guevara

"The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound down by their practical world view, are able to place those members of the disintegrating tribes they may have seen in their travels among these once-living walls, unaware of the moral distance separating them, since only the semi-indigenous spirit of the South American can grasp the subtle differences."
— Che Guevara

"The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It was - I don't know how to explain it - as if everything solid melted away into the ether, eliminating all individualtiy and absorbing us, rigid, into the immense darkness. Not a single cloud to lend perspective to the space blocked any portion of the starry sky."
— Che Guevara

"I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know this, I see it printed in the night sky that I, eclectic dissembler of doctrine and psychoanalyst of dogma, howling like one possessed, will assault the barricades or the trenches , will take my bloodstained weapon, and consumed with fury, slaughter any enemy who falls into my hands."
— Che Guevara

"Todos los días la gente se arregla el cabello, ¿por qué no el corazón?"
— Che Guevara

"A petty concern with mere evidence is an antiquated and bourgeois feature of the captalist legal system. We are revolutionaries. We convict from a revolutionary passion."
— Che Guevara