Quotes from Che Guevara

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

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.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

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.

Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize.

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.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

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.

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

We travel just to travel.

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

A political event was that I met Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary. He is a young, intelligent guy, very sure of himself and extraordinarily audacious; I think we hit it off well.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

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.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

We put no condition of any kind to the U.S., we don't want it to change its system, we don't want racial discrimination to cease in the U.S., we put no conditions to the establishment of relations.

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.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

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