Quotes from Ernesto Che Guevara

Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura.[It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness]

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

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.

Let the world change you and you can change the world

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.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.

The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day

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

And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.

HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE

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.

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

El revolucionario vedadero es guiado por gran sentimientos de amor.

For me, the sea has always been a confidant, a friend absorbing all it is told and never revealing those secrets; always giving the best advice - its meaningful noises can be interpreted any way you choose.

Don't Shoot! I'm Che. I'm worth more to you alive than dead!

To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].

Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates... Instead, they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service, should learn to think and act as a mass.

Se tremes diante de qualquer injustiça, estejas onde for, então somos companheiros»

I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.

Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another...