Che Guevara Quotes

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity.

We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.

I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.

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

How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?

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

One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.

We travel just to travel.

A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.

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

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.

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.

It is an illusion to think that the matter can be resolved through words.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.

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.

The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.

Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.

I have never considered myself an economist.

The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Do not shoot! I am Che Guevara and worth more to you alive than dead.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.

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.