Che Guevara Quotes

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.

I don’t care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.

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.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

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

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

Be realistic, demand the impossible!

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.

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.

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.

A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.

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.

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

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

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. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of
avoiding baths