Top 98 Che Guevara Quotes
#1. The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.
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#2. I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.
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#3. The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth
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#4. Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted.
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#5. It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.
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#6. How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?
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#7. Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final defeat save through effort and sacrifice on the part of all of us.
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#8. Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in defense against oppression.
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#9. Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!
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#10. Direct aggression against Cuba would mean nuclear war. The Americans speak about such aggression as if they did not know or did not want to accept this fact. I have no doubt they would lose such a war.
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#11. 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.
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#12. The guerrilla band is not to be considered inferior to the army against which it fights simply because it is inferior in fire power.
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#13. One must endure without losing tenderness.
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#14. Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
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#15. The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese.
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#16. We should not go to the [poor countries] and say: 'We come to ... teach you our science, to show you your errors.' ... We should go instead with an inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn [from] these people.
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#17. One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created.
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#18. Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
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#19. We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity.
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#20. In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.
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#21. To accomplish much you must first lose everything.
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#22. Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize.
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#23. Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.
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#24. If they attack, we shall fight to the end. If the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York, in our defense against aggression. But we haven't got them, so we shall fight with what we've got.
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#25. 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.
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#26. The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.
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#27. There are no borders in this fight to the death; we cannot be indifferent to what is happening in any part of the world.
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#28. We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.
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#29. I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America.
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#30. Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians.
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#31. War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.
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#32. Each spilt drop of blood, in any country under whose flag one has not been born, is an experience passed on to those who survive, to be added later to the liberation struggle of his own country. And each nation liberated is a phase won in the battle for the liberation of one's own country.
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#33. 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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#34. I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel ...
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#35. When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.
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#36. A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.
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#37. It is an illusion to think that the matter cannot be resolved through words.
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#38. The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.
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#39. 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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#40. In a revolution, one triumphs or dies.
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#41. I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won't rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.
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#42. The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.
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#43. Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.
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#44. Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him.
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#45. The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!
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#46. 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.
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#47. Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
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#48. A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall!
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#49. We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.
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#50. Blind hate against the enemy creates a forceful impulse that cracks the boundaries of natural human limitations, transforming the soldier in an effective, selective and cold killing machine. A people without hate cannot triumph against the adversary.
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#51. Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.
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#52. 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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#53. In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one
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#54. I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ ...
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#55. Given the prevailing lack of discipline, it would have been impossible to use Congolese machine-gunners to defend the base from air attack: they did not know how to handle their weapons and did not want to learn,
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#56. The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind! Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination! If the nuclear missiles had remained (in Cuba) we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City!
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#57. The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude entails, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this.
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#58. It's not my fault if reality is Marxist
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#59. It is not just a simple game, it is a weapon of the revolution.
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#60. Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.
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#61. The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
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#62. Words that do not match deeds are not important.
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#63. It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory
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#64. The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.
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#65. 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
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#66. The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.
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#67. You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.
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#68. Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.
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#69. Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace.
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#70. Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.
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#71. Because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.
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#72. If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.
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#73. The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of
avoiding baths
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#74. The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation
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#75. We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.
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#76. Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.
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#77. Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.
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#78. A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies.
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#79. While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America.
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#80. Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.
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#82. 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.
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#83. If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.
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#84. How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering.
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#85. The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.
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#86. Let's be realistic. Let's do the impossible!
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#87. The only passion that guides me is for the truth ... I look at everything from this point of view.
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#88. 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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#89. As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.
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#90. The fundamental principle is that no battle, combat, or skirmish is to be fought unless it will be won.
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#92. Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.
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#93. Arms cannot be regarded as merchandise in our world. They should be delivered to the peoples asking for them for use against the common enemy without any charge at all, and in quantities determined by the need and their availability.
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#94. It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.
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#95. To execute a man we don't need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it's necessary to execute him. It's that simple.
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#96. 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.
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#97. Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.
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#98. Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm.
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