Top 51 Ernesto Che Guevara Quotes
#2. 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.
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#3. Adherence to principles, and adherence to the individual, combine to make the Rebel Army an indivisible fist.
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#4. 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.
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#7. We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
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#9. Che is transformed into a hardened symbol of resistance, a symbol of the fight for what is just, of passion, of the necessity of being fully human, multiplied infinitely in the ideals and weapons of those who struggle. This is what the front men and their omnipotent handlers fear.
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#11. Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another ...
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#12. 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.
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#13. It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.
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#14. We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla is a social reformer, who takes up arms responding to the angry protests of the people against their oppressors, and who fights to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and poverty.
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#15. Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.
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#16. Allow me to say, at the risk of appearing ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is motivated by great feelings of love.
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#17. For me, the sea has always been a confidant, a friend absorbing all it is told and never revealing those secrets; always giving the best advice - its meaningful noises can be interpreted any way you choose.
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#18. Perhaps one day tired of circling the world I'll return to Argentina and settle in the Andean lakes if not indefinitely then at least for a pause while I shift from one understanding of the world to another.
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#19. 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.
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#20. I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.
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#21. The guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.
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#22. I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.
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#23. 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.
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#24. Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates ... Instead, they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service, should learn to think and act as a mass.
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#25. Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura.
[It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness]
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#26. 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.
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#28. We executed many people by firing squad without knowing if they were fully guilty. At times, the Revolution cannot stop to conduct much investigation; it has the obligation to triumph.
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#29. 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.
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#30. 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.
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#31. The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day
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#33. 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.
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#34. 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.
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#35. His wife spotted the danger in our resolutely bohemian ways.
"You have only one year left before you qualify as a doctor and yet you're going away? You have no idea when you'll be back? But why?"
We couldn't give precise answers to her desperate questions and this horrified her ...
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#36. I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.
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#37. If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
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#38. 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.
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#39. Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.
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#40. A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.
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#41. The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.
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#42. The bike struggled showing signs it was feeling the strain especially in the bodywork which we constantly had to fix with Alberto's favored spare part - wire.
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#43. I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
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#44. The psychological effects of the sun are strange: it had not yet appeared over the horizon and we already felt comforted, just imagining the heat it would bring.
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#45. There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.
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#46. It is there, in the final moments, for people whose farthest horizon has always been tomorrow, that one comprehends the profound tragedy circumscribing the life of the proletariat the world over.
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#47. The dramatic news is confirmed: Che has died in combat. His belongings are described in vivid detail and other information is given that only those close to the scene could have known. The
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#49. We must eliminate all newspapers; we cannot make a revolution with free press. Newspapers are instruments of the oligarchy.
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#50. I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
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