Che Guevara Quotes

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

Be realistic, demand the impossible!

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.

Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?

Let the world change you and you can change the world

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

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

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.

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

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

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

To accomplish much you must first lose everything.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

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

Words that do not match deeds are not important.

Let's be realistic. Let's do the impossible!

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

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

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.

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.

It's not my fault if reality is Marxist

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

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.

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.

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

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.

One must endure without losing tenderness.

The best form of saying is doing.

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

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

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

A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.

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

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

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

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.

Words without deeds are worthless.

The world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.

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 truths.

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.

Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians.

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

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel.