Quotes from Ernesto Guevara

Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am...only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.

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

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

The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.

This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.

Dejeme decirie, a risego de parecer ridiculo, que el revolucionario verdadero esta guiado por grandes sentimientos de amor. Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

It is there, in the final moments, for people whose farthest horizon has always been tomorrow, that one comprehends the profound tragedy circumscribing the life of the proletariat the world over.

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. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.

Perhaps one day tired of circling the world I'll return to Argentina and settle in the Andean lakes if not indefinitely then at least for a pause while I shift from one understanding of the world to another.

y sobre todo sean siempre capaces de sentir en lo mas hondo cualquier injusticia cometida contra cualquiera en cualquier parte del mundo. Es la cualidad mas linda de un revolucionario.

A petty concern with mere evidence is an antiquated and bourgeois feature of the captalist legal system. We are revolutionaries. We convict from a revolutionary passion.

Hasta la victoria siempre! Patria o muerte!

T?m bi?t em, tình yêu duy nh?t c?a anh, ??ng run s? trÆ°á»›c b?y sói Ä'ói m?i CÅ©ng nhÆ° gi?a nh?ng th?o nguyên cô qu?nh; Anh luôn mang em theo trong tim mình Và chúng ta s? Ä'i cùng nhau cho ??n khi con ???ng bi?n m?t...

O siamo capaci di sconfiggere le opinioni contrarie con la discussione, o dobbiamo lasciarle esprimere. Non è possibile sconfiggere le opinioni con la forza, perché questo blocca il libero sviluppo dell'intelligenza.

Individuals start to see themselves reflected in their work and to understand their full status as human beings through the object created, through the work accomplished. Work no longer entails surrendering a part of one's being in the form of labor power sold, which no longer belongs to the individual, but becomes an expression of oneself, a contribution to the common life in which one is reflected, the fulfillment of one's social duty.

We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.

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