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The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese. -- Che Guevara
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. -- Che Guevara
Direct aggression against Cuba would mean nuclear war. The Americans speak about such aggression as if they did not know or did not want to accept this fact. I have no doubt they would lose such a war. -- Che Guevara
In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm. -- Che Guevara
Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted. -- Che Guevara
Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in defense against oppression. -- Che Guevara
The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects. -- Che Guevara
Each spilt drop of blood, in any country under whose flag one has not been born, is an experience passed on to those who survive, to be added later to the liberation struggle of his own country. And each nation liberated is a phase won in the battle for the liberation of one's own country. -- Che Guevara
Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final defeat save through effort and sacrifice on the part of all of us. -- Che Guevara
The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind! Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination! If the nuclear missiles had remained (in Cuba) we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City! -- Che Guevara
The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed sediment of a muddy lake when you touch its bottom. -- Che Guevara
When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken. -- Che Guevara
We should not go to the [poor countries] and say: 'We come to ... teach you our science, to show you your errors.' ... We should go instead with an inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn [from] these people. -- Che Guevara
To accomplish much you must first lose everything. -- Che Guevara
A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies. -- Che Guevara
Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize. -- Che Guevara
The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination. -- 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. -- Che Guevara
Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians. -- Che Guevara
Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary. -- Che Guevara
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. -- Che Guevara
The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West. -- Che Guevara
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth -- Che Guevara
I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won't rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated. -- Che Guevara
In a revolution, one triumphs or dies. -- Che Guevara
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. -- Che Guevara
The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone. -- Che Guevara
It is an illusion to think that the matter cannot be resolved through words. -- Che Guevara
A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier. -- Che Guevara
I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel ... -- Che Guevara
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. -- Che Guevara
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. -- Che Guevara
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel. -- Che Guevara
In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one -- Che Guevara
Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants. -- Che Guevara
Blind hate against the enemy creates a forceful impulse that cracks the boundaries of natural human limitations, transforming the soldier in an effective, selective and cold killing machine. A people without hate cannot triumph against the adversary. -- Che Guevara
We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press. -- Che Guevara
A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall! -- Che Guevara
I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America. -- Che Guevara
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. -- Che Guevara
The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims! -- Che Guevara
Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him. -- Che Guevara
Better to die standing, than to live on your knees. -- Che Guevara
Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. -- Che Guevara
One must endure without losing tenderness. -- Che Guevara
The guerrilla band is not to be considered inferior to the army against which it fights simply because it is inferior in fire power. -- Che Guevara
Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals! -- Che Guevara
How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew? -- Che Guevara
It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them. -- Che Guevara
I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning. -- Che Guevara
Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy. -- Che Guevara
We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary. -- Che Guevara
There are no borders in this fight to the death; we cannot be indifferent to what is happening in any part of the world. -- Che Guevara
The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations. -- Che Guevara
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. -- Che Guevara
If they attack, we shall fight to the end. If the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York, in our defense against aggression. But we haven't got them, so we shall fight with what we've got. -- Che Guevara
The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street. -- Che Guevara
We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity. -- Che Guevara
Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses. -- Che Guevara
One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created. -- Che Guevara
It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory -- Che Guevara
It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression. -- Che Guevara
Because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts. -- Che Guevara
Given the prevailing lack of discipline, it would have been impossible to use Congolese machine-gunners to defend the base from air attack: they did not know how to handle their weapons and did not want to learn, -- Che Guevara
Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing. -- Che Guevara
Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface. -- Che Guevara
We travel just to travel. -- Che Guevara
I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people -- Che Guevara
Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers. -- Che Guevara
If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades. -- Che Guevara
Let's be realistic. Let's do the impossible! -- Che Guevara
I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ ... -- Che Guevara
To execute a man we don't need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it's necessary to execute him. It's that simple. -- Che Guevara
It's not my fault if reality is Marxist -- Che Guevara
We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle. -- Che Guevara
The fundamental principle is that no battle, combat, or skirmish is to be fought unless it will be won. -- Che Guevara
Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace. -- Che Guevara
The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation -- Che Guevara
While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America. -- Che Guevara
You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela. -- Che Guevara
The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent. -- Che Guevara
Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that ancient melancholy of smoke, unifying everything with its grayish monotones, a perfect coupling with the gray mountain days. -- Che Guevara
The only passion that guides me is for the truth ... I look at everything from this point of view. -- Che Guevara
As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism. -- Che Guevara
Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world. -- Che Guevara
Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature. -- Che Guevara
Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect. -- Che Guevara
Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats. -- Che Guevara
Words that do not match deeds are not important. -- Che Guevara
If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot. -- Che Guevara
It is not just a simple game, it is a weapon of the revolution. -- Che Guevara
The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day. -- Che Guevara
Words without deeds are worthless. -- Che Guevara
The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude entails, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this. -- Che Guevara
Arms cannot be regarded as merchandise in our world. They should be delivered to the peoples asking for them for use against the common enemy without any charge at all, and in quantities determined by the need and their availability. -- Che Guevara
How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering. -- Che Guevara
The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of
avoiding baths -- Che Guevara
Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm. -- Che Guevara