Quotes from Ernesto Che Guevara

The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

Bisogna essere duri senza mai perdere la tenerezza.

Conduct toward the civil population ought to be regulated by a large respect for all the rules and traditions of the people of the zone, in order to demonstrate effectively, with deeds, the moral superiority of the guerrilla fighter over the oppressing soldier.

Apart from whether collectivism, the "communist vermin," is a danger to decent life, the communism gnawing at his entrails was no more than a natural longing for something better, a protest against persistent hunger transformed into a love for this strange doctrine, whose essence he could never grasp but whose translation, "bread for the poor," was something which he understood and, more importantly, filled him with hope.

Constituimos una sola raza mestiza que desde México hasta el estrecho de Magallanes presenta notables similitudes etnográficas.

E se vale la pena rischiare, io mi gioco anche l'ultimo frammento di cuore.

Ulusal gelirin büyük bir k?sm?n? verimsiz denilen eÄŸitim yat?r?mlar?na harcamak gerekir ve tar?m verimliliÄŸinin geliÅŸmesine özellikle dikkat edilmelidir.

I doubted whether driftwood has the right to say, "I win," when the tide throws it on to the beach it seeks.

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.

He interprets the desires of the great peasant mass to be owners of land, owners of their means of production, of their animals, of all that which they have long yearned to call their own, of that which constitutes their life and will also serve as their cemetery.

The enormity of our endeavor escaped us in those moments, all we could see was the dust on the road ahead and ourselves on the bike, devouring kilometers in the flight northward.

I doubted whether driftwood has the right to say, "I win," when the tide throws it on to the beach it seeks.

Esse vagar sem rumo pelos caminhos de nossa Maiúscula América me transformou mais do que me dei conta.

There we understood that our vocation, our true vocation, was to move for eternity along the roads and seas of the world. Always curious, looking into everything that came before our eyes, sniffing out each corner but only ever faintly — not setting down roots in any land or staying long enough to see the substratum of things; the outer limits would suffice.

Ä°fade özgürlüÄŸü bir mitten baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸil.

The sea danced on the small stretch of beach, indifferent to its own eternal law and spawning its own note of caution.

No se vive celebrando victorias, sino superando derrotas.

He belonged to that special class of men the species produces every so often, in whom a craving for limitless power is so extreme that any suffering to achieve it seems natural, and he had become the omnipotent ruler of a warrior nation.

The dramatic news is confirmed: Che has died in combat. His belongings are described in vivid detail and other information is given that only those close to the scene could have known. The

Its vast and jarring rhythm hammered at the fortress within me and threatened its imposing serenity.

Distant countries, heroic deeds and beautiful women spun around in our turbulent dream.

I was, as we all are, a child of my environment.

The harsh blows of reality need to be felt before we begin to change; and we always prefer to change the form, that which is most clearly visible as being negative, rather than tackle the real essence of all the difficulties that exist today, which is this false conception of the communist human being based on a long-established economic practice that tends, and will always tend, to convert humans into little more than numbers in the production process through the lever of material interest.

My tired eyes refused to sleep and in them a pair of green spots swirled, representing the world I had left for dead behind me and mocking the so-called liberation I sought. They harnessed their image to my extraordinary flight across the lands and seas of the world.