110+ Che Guevara Quotes On Education, Revolution And Death

Che Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. He was a major figure in the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture. Che Guevara's revolutionary activities and political vision were based on a strong belief in the liberating power of socialism and anti-imperialism. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Che Guevara on education, revolution, love.

Top 10 Che Guevara Quotes

1. The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
2. If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.
3. Silence is argument carried out by other means.
4. Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.
5. Be realistic, demand the impossible!
6. The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
7. It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.
8. Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?
9. If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
10. I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

Che Guevara Image Quotes

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. — Che Guevara

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

Words without deeds are worthless. — Che Guevara

Che Guevara Short Quotes

• To accomplish much you must first lose everything.
• I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
• Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.
• Words without deeds are worthless.
• I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel.
• We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity.
• Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians.
• How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?
• A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.
• One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.

Che Guevara Quotes About Revolution

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day. — Che Guevara

In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one — Che Guevara

You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela. — Che Guevara

It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them. — Che Guevara

Revolutions are not exportable: revolutions are created by oppressive conditions which Latin American countries exercise against their peoples. — Che Guevara

I am not the representative of guerrilla in this hemisphere. I would say that the representative would be Fidel Castro which was the leader of our revolution and who had the most outstanding role in the direction of the revolutionary struggle and directs the strategy of the Cuban government. — Che Guevara

To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. — Che Guevara

The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day — Che Guevara

It is not just a simple game, it is a weapon of the revolution. — Che Guevara

Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants. — Che Guevara

Che Guevara Quotes About Love

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

Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize. — Che Guevara

We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force. — Che Guevara

Che Guevara Quotes About Death

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. — Che Guevara

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. — Che Guevara

There are no borders in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, because 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

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 — Che Guevara

Che Guevara Quotes About Youth

Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world. — Che Guevara

Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible. — Che Guevara

Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals! — Che Guevara

Che Guevara Quotes About Life

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. — Che Guevara

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. — Che Guevara

We have to dedicate our efforts to better the life, the time passed by the worker in the industrial plant. That will be one of our main efforts during the next year. — Che Guevara

I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees. — 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

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

Che Guevara Quotes About Socialism

The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims! — Che Guevara

The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects. — 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

Che Guevara Quotes About Revolutionary

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle. — Che Guevara

The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation — Che Guevara

A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall]. — Che Guevara

One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created. — Che Guevara

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. — Che Guevara

Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface. — Che Guevara

We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary. — Che Guevara

Che Guevara Quotes About Turn

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel. — Che Guevara

...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts. — Che Guevara

We sold sugar with the specific conditions established by American buyers, which in turn dominated the internal market and production in Cuba. Now if we would sell sugar to the U.S., it would be the Cuban Government the one who would sell it, and it would be a complete profit for our people. — Che Guevara

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. — Che Guevara

Che Guevara Famous Quotes And Sayings

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. — Che Guevara

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

The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent. — Che Guevara

My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any surrendered enemy that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl! — Che Guevara

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. — Che Guevara

I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get nailed to a cross or any other place. — Che Guevara

One must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth in order to avoid dogmatic extremes, cold scholasticism, or an isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force. — Che Guevara

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. — Che Guevara

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. — Che Guevara

The problem of peaceful transition to socialism, we do not discuss it as a theoretical question. But in America it is very difficult, and it is nearly impossible. That is why specifically in America we say that the road to the liberation of peoples, which will be the road of socialism will go through bullets in almost all countries. — Che Guevara

Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy. — Che Guevara

Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him. — Che Guevara

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! — Che Guevara

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. — Che Guevara

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. — Che Guevara

When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken. — Che Guevara

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot. — Che Guevara

The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street. — Che Guevara

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. — Che Guevara

We said that each time a country is liberated it is a defeat for the world imperialist system. But we must agree that the break is not achieved by the mere act of proclaiming independence or winning an armed victory in a revolution. It is achieved when imperialist economic domination over a people is brought to an end. — Che Guevara

If you ask me the image of Latin America, there are sorne countries which oppress their peoples much more, and among the less - least oppressive, among those with which we could have perfectly normal relations without any difficulties - we could have Uruguay, Chile, maybe Costa Rica. But the U.S.. do not permit us. — Che Guevara

Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another. — Che Guevara

The amount of poverty and suffering required for a Rockefeller to emerge, and the amount of depravity entailed in the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible for the popular forces to expose this clearly. — Che Guevara

Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace. — Che Guevara

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. — Che Guevara

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. — Che Guevara

How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering. — 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

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan. — Che Guevara

The fundamental principle is that no battle, combat, or skirmish is to be fought unless it will be won. — Che Guevara

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. — Che Guevara

Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that 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. — Che Guevara

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth — Che Guevara

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. — Che Guevara

If it is an element of liberation for Latin America, I believe that it should have demonstrated that. Until now, I have not been aware of any such demonstration. The IMF performs an entirely different function: precisely that of ensuring that capital based outside of Latin America controls all of Latin America. — Che Guevara

I understand that the American people has a right and especially the press, which is not very friendly to us, to make all suppositions and ideas about this fact [suicide by Augusto Martinez] - this disgraced fact. — Che Guevara

Socialism is young and has made errors. Many times revolutionaries lack the knowledge and intellectual courage needed to meet the task of developing the new man with methods different from the conventional ones - and the conventional methods suffer from the influences of the society, which created them. — Che Guevara

I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ. — Che Guevara

As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism. — Che Guevara

I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America. — Che Guevara

We have a lot of friends, but not among the governments - the friends are in the peoples. And in the last instance the peoples will be the rulers of those states. — Che Guevara

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. — Che Guevara

We have denounced in all assemblies, in all places where we have had the opportunity to speak, the illegality of flights and the fact that there is a base against the will of the Cuban people. — Che Guevara

The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West. — Che Guevara

I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting. — Che Guevara

We feel that there is a necessity to strengthen unity and that it will be strengthened and the bloc, the monolithic bloc of socialist countries will be formed again. — Che Guevara

Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm. — Che Guevara

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

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. — Che Guevara

The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, one notes a decline in collective enthusiasm due to the effect of a quantitative diminution in each of the elements that make up the mass. Work is paralyzed until it is reduced to an insignificant level. It is time to make a correction. — Che Guevara

Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers. — 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

The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths — Che Guevara

I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good. — Che Guevara

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. — 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

If we had to kneel in order to live in peace, [ U.S. government] will have to kill us before. — 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

We know the power of the U.S.. We do not fool ourselves about this power. We say that the U.S. government wants us to pay a very high price for this unstable peace we enjoy today. And the price we are in a position to pay is only - comes only to the frontiers of dignity, not beyond. — Che Guevara

The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless. — Che Guevara

It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression. — Che Guevara

Words that do not match deeds are not important. — Che Guevara

The guerrilla band is not to be considered inferior to the army against which it fights simply because it is inferior in fire power. — Che Guevara

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. — Che Guevara

Life Lessons by Che Guevara

1. Che Guevara showed us the power of standing up for what you believe in and fighting for social justice.
2. He demonstrated the importance of solidarity and collective action in order to bring about real change.
3. His example teaches us that it is possible to challenge oppressive systems and create a more equitable world.