Che Guevara

Revolutionary

1928-06-14 – 1967-10-09

Che Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, and guerrilla leader who became a central figure in the Cuban Revolution. He later pursued revolutionary campaigns in Africa and Bolivia.

Quotes by Che Guevara

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.
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Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.
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How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.
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I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two 'I's' struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.
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If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.
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The guerrilla fighters should be required to go to bed and get up at fixed hours. Games that have no social function and that hurt the morale of the troops and the consumption of alcoholic drinks should both be prohibited.
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Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
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It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.
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The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.
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I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.
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It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. 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.
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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.
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We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
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I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.
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I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.
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The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.
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Words that do not match deeds are not important.
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Many would call me an adventurer, and I am one, only one of a different sort, one of those that risks his skin to demonstrate what he believes to be true.
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Silence is argument carried on by other means.
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The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.
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