Top 100 Ernesto Quotes
#1. I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.
Ernesto Cardenal
#2. Read the inscription," he said. I opened the book. On the flyleaf it said: "To Hilda, so that on the day we part the substance of my hopes for the future and my predestined struggle will remain with you. Ernesto 20-1-55.
Hilda Gadea
#3. Welcome to the First International Red Fighting Brigade of the Moscow Metropolitan in the name of Ernesto Che Guevara!
Dmitry Glukhovsky
#4. Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood.
Marguerite Duras
#5. The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day
Ernesto Che Guevara
#6. I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#7. 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.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#8. 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 Che Guevara
#9. I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids.
Ernesto Bertarelli
#10. We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.
Ernesto Cardenal
#11. 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.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#14. For sheer sensory enjoyment, few everyday experiences can compete with a good cup of coffee.
Ernesto Illy
#15. 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.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#17. In life you need courage to fight the dragons. The ones who live inside and the ones who live outside
Ernesto Neto
#18. According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.
Ernesto Cardenal
#19. Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura.
[It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness]
Ernesto Che Guevara
#20. Only those capable of envisaging utopia will be fit for the decisive battle, that of recovering all the humanity we have lost.
Ernesto Sabato
#21. Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?
Ernesto Sabato
#23. 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.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#24. ... capable of maintaining and advocating a stance which negated all that he had gleaned from his earlier clarifications.
Ernesto Spinelli
#25. God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love.
Ernesto Cardenal
#26. 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.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#27. I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.
Ernesto Cardenal
#28. You can't change who you are, but you can change what you have in your head, you can refresh what you're thinking about, you can put some fresh air in your brain.
Ernesto Bertarelli
#29. 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.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#30. 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.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#31. 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
#32. 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.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#33. I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#35. 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.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#37. The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#38. A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#39. Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#40. No one painted a more accurate picture of military depredation than Vergil. Inspired though he was by the Latin spirit and by his pride in Rome, he nevertheless glorified Rome's true mission as one of providing the world with the rules of peace and justice.
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
#41. You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance I found out in jail.
Ernesto Cardenal
#42. Vanity is found in the most unlikely places: in combination with kindness, and selflessness, and generosity.
Ernesto Sabato
#43. If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#44. ... we may seek to impose severe restrictions upon what, how and when we engage with others so that the risks are statistically minimised.
Ernesto Spinelli
#45. The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the future development and happiness of mankind will be.
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
#46. I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#47. 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 ...
Ernesto Che Guevara
#48. 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.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#50. The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that cannot fail to influence the further development of revolutionary movements in the whole of Latin America, whose inhabitants are predominantly Christian.
Ernesto Cardenal
#51. 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
#53. The quintessential expression of coffee is espresso.
Ernesto Illy
#54. How can you have faith in human nature when you think that a sewer and certain moments of Schumann or Brahms are connected by secret, shadowy, subterranean passageways.
Ernesto Sabato
#55. The Italian Revolution was fought first of all to obtain the liberty and unity of the nation, and then, with that achieved, to join the freest and most advanced nations in inaugurating a new era of peace, justice, and joint cooperation in the work of civilization.
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
#56. I always thought that it's important to have other things, not just work, and I often even suggested my managers take some time off and come back fresh and ready to fight again.
Ernesto Bertarelli
#57. What we have to realize is that we are part of the crisis, and we are determining the outcome; our actions, at a personal level as well as a planetary level, are part of the solution. If we do nothing then disaster could be the final outcome.
Ernesto Ortiz
#58. I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.
Ernesto Cardenal
#61. On a tiny planet that has been racing toward oblivion for millions of years, we are born amid sorrow; we grow, we struggle, we grow ill, we suffer, we make others suffer, we cry out, we die, others die, and new beings are born to begin the senseless comedy all over again.
Ernesto Sabato
#62. It seems to me / the the great bards of the 20th century are in Publicity / those Keatses and Shelleys singing the Colgate smile / Cosmic Coca-Cola, the pause the refreshes, / the make of car that will take us to the land of happiness.
Ernesto Cardenal
#64. When we drink coffee, our tongue gets painted. As long as it stays painted, it remains tasty!
Ernesto Illy
#65. We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#68. 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.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#69. Adherence to principles, and adherence to the individual, combine to make the Rebel Army an indivisible fist.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#70. The concept that flourished during the most glorious periods of republican Rome and that appeared in the Twelve Tables of the Law as one of the first, though as yet imperfect, affirmations of the rights of man, inspired the struggle between patricians and plebeians.
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
#71. The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy.
Ernesto Sabato
#72. Criminals are the most decent and least offensive people among us.
Ernesto Sabato
#73. I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace.
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
#74. 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
#76. What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.
Ernesto Cardenal
#77. Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#78. What you do [to provide better aid is] you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas.
Ernesto Sirolli
#79. I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.
Ernesto Cardenal
#80. I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#81. 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
#82. I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.
Ernesto Cardenal
#83. 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.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#84. There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.
Ernesto Sirolli
#85. 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.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#86. I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important - a very important - part of this.
Ernesto Zedillo
#87. The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.
Ernesto Sabato
#88. Allow me to say, at the risk of appearing ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is motivated by great feelings of love.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#89. 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.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#90. My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric.
Ernesto Cardenal
#91. We all share in the same cosmic rhythm ... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp.
Ernesto Cardenal
#92. 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.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#93. It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#94. 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.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#95. Greatness is so aggressive, so dramatic! Don't you think it is almost bad manners?
Ernesto Sabato
#96. Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another ...
Ernesto Che Guevara
#98. 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.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#100. Coffee is a product favouring sociability, friendship, and conversation and it should always be consumed with someone else.
Ernesto Illy
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