Che Guevara Quotes

Welcome to my Che Guevara quotes. I have a lot of admiration for this man. He fought for what he believed in and died for his beliefs. These quotes highlight the type of man he was and what he stood for.

June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967
Marxist revolutionary, guerrilla leader, physician, author and diplomat

• CHE GUEVARA QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
• Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.
• I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
• Silence is argument carried out by other means.
• Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
• I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.
• I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
• The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Until victory always.
• 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.
• The guerrilla band is not to be considered inferior to the army against which it fights simply because it is inferior in fire power.
• One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.
• In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.
• 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.
• In a revolution, one triumphs or dies.
• 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.
• I don't know if the Cuban revolution will survive or not. It's difficult to say. But [if it doesn't] . . . don't come looking for me among the refugees in the embassies. I've had that experience, and I'm not ever going to repeat it. I will go out with a machine gun in my hand, to the barricades. . . I'll keep fighting to the end.
• Much more definitive and much more lasting than all the gold that one can accumulate is the gratitude of a people.
• It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.
• 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.
• 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.
• We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.





• The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude entails, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this
• We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it, to his home, to his centers of entertainment: a total war. It is necessary to prevent him from having a moment of peace, a quiet moment outside his barracks or even inside; we must attack him wherever he may be, make him feel like a cornered beast wherever he may move. Then his moral fiber shall begin to decline, but we shall notice how the signs of decadence begin to disappear.
• The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.
• The question is one of fighting the causes and not just the effects. This revolution is bound to fail if it doesn't succeed in reaching deep inside them, stirring them right down to the bone, and giving them back their stature as human beings. Otherwise, what's the use?
• The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves
• Let's be realistic, demand the impossible!
• I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.
• After graduation, due to special circumstances and perhaps also to my character, I began to travel throughout America, and I became acquainted with all of it. Except for Haiti and Santo Domingo, I have visited, to some extent, all the other Latin American countries. Because of the circumstances in which I traveled, first as a student and later as a doctor, I came into close contact with poverty, hunger and disease; with the inability to treat a child because of lack of money; with the stupefaction provoked by the continual hunger and punishment, to the point that a father can accept the loss of a son as an unimportant accident, as occurs often in the downtrodden classes of our American homeland. And I began to realize at that time that there were things that were almost as important to me as becoming a famous or making a significant contribution to medical science: I wanted to help those people.
• If they attack, we shall fight to the end. If the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York, in our defense against aggression. But we haven’t got them, so we shall fight with what we’ve got.
• Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.
• Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan, or with the persecution that drove scientists like Oppenheimer from their posts, deprived the world for years of the marvelous voice of Paul Robeson, held prisoner in his own country, and sent the Rosenberg's to their deaths against the protests of a shocked world, including the appeals of many governments and of Pope Pius XII.

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