Che Guevara Quotes

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  • The inflow of capital from the developed countries is the prerequisite for the establishment of economic dependence. This inflow takes various forms: loans granted on onerous terms; investments that place a given country in the power of the investors; almost total technological subordination of the dependent country to the developed country; control of a country's foreign trade by the big international monopolies; and in extreme cases, the use of force as an economic weapon in support of the other forms of exploitation.

    "On Development". Speech delivered at the plenary session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, www.marxists.org. March 25, 1964.
  • 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.

    Source: guevaristas.org
  • Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

  • We put no condition of any kind to the U.S., we don't want it to change its system, we don't want racial discrimination to cease in the U.S., we put no conditions to the establishment of relations.

    Source: guevaristas.org
  • Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?

  • In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one

    Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.386, Ocean Press
  • 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 (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press
  • As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.

    Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.345, Ocean Press
  • Be realistic, demand the impossible!

  • With a military American base in our territory, where there could be any sort of weapons, where we have to endure every kind of provocations, we have to support and endure the flights over our territory.

    Source: guevaristas.org
  • We will not accept any conditions from the U.S.

    Source: guevaristas.org
  • I do not imply that in the U.S plants, industrial plants, are places of exploitation where man is oppressed. 1 know that there are a great number of advantages here for too American worker.

    Source: guevaristas.org
  • Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.

    "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life". Book by John Lee Anderson, 2010.
  • How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering.

    Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.341, Ocean Press
  • There is one government with which we keep diplomatic relations, the government of Mexico, with which we have good relations. Our systems are different. We respect their system.

    Source: guevaristas.org
  • The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.

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

    Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.219, Ocean Press
  • 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, Ernesto Guevara (2009). “Che: The Diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara”, p.17, Ocean Press
  • The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths

  • There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

  • The best form of saying is doing.

    "Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution".
  • I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.

    Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara (2009). “Che: The Diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara”, p.17, Ocean Press
  • Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!

  • The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

    Ernesto Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara (2000). “Che Guevara Speaks”, Pathfinder Press
  • 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.

    "Last Letter from Papa". Letter by Che Guevara to his Children, 1965.
  • 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 (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.54, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

    Statement in Mexico in 1958. "Kaplan AP World History 2005". Book by Mark Bach, p. 240, 2004.
  • I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.

  • 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 (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press
  • 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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    Che Guevara

    • Born: June 14, 1928
    • Died: October 9, 1967
    • Occupation: Revolutionary