Che Guevara Quotes

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

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

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

Be realistic, demand the impossible!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

To accomplish much you must first lose everything.

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

Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians.

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

We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.

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

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

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

The best form of saying is doing.

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

Words without deeds are worthless.

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!