Che Guevara
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.Collection: Moving
The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by dayCollection: Revolution
Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.Collection: Men
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.Collection: War
Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy.Collection: Struggle
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.Collection: Octopus
Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible.Collection: Military
The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.Collection: Fighting
The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, one notes a decline in collective enthusiasm due to the effect of a quantitative diminution in each of the elements that make up the mass. Work is paralyzed until it is reduced to an insignificant level. It is time to make a correction.Collection: Mistake
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.Collection: Numbers
Do not shoot! I am Che Guevara and worth more to you alive than dead.Collection: Alive
The university should color itself black and color itself mulatto — not just as regards students but also professors. Today the people stand at the door of the university, and it is the university that must be flexible. It must color itself black, mulatto, worker, peasant, or else be left without doors. And then the people will tear it apart and paint it with the colors they see fit.Collection: Doors
We said that each time a country is liberated it is a defeat for the world imperialist system. But we must agree that the break is not achieved by the mere act of proclaiming independence or winning an armed victory in a revolution. It is achieved when imperialist economic domination over a people is brought to an end.Collection: Country
A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.Collection: Soldier
I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.Collection: Reading
The fundamental principle is that no battle, combat, or skirmish is to be fought unless it will be won.Collection: Victory
The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!Collection: Victory
We have taken plants from the capitalist system where the most important thing was to produce, especially in Cuba.Collection: Taken
With a military American base in our territory, where there could be any sort of weapons, where we have to endure every kind of provocations, we have to support and endure the flights over our territory.Collection: Military
I think harmonious relations with the U.S. would be very good for us from the economical point of view, more than in any other field, because all our industry has been established by the U.S. and primary products and repair parts that we have to make with much difficulty or to bring from other areas could come directly. And besides, sugar, which traditionally we had the American market is also near.Collection: Thinking
What we consider is that the Venezuelan government is not a leftist government, has nothing of a leftist government. It is an oppressor, an oppressive government, it is a murderer - he murders them - the peasant fights in the region of Falcon, for example, where there are military advisers of the U.S.Collection: Military
One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created.Collection: Waiting
We are not the ones who create revolutions. It is the imperialist system and its allies, internal allies, the ones who create revolution.Collection: Allies
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truthCollection: Lying
As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.Collection: Country
In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.Collection: Way
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.Collection: Country
What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.Collection: Two
Socialism is young and has made errors. Many times revolutionaries lack the knowledge and intellectual courage needed to meet the task of developing the new man with methods different from the conventional ones - and the conventional methods suffer from the influences of the society, which created them.Collection: Men
I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ.Collection: Dictator
The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.Collection: Mean
Perhaps one day tired of circling the world I'll return to Argentina and settle in the Andean lakes if not indefinitely then at least for a pause while I shift from one understanding of the world to another.Collection: Tired
If it is an element of liberation for Latin America, I believe that it should have demonstrated that. Until now, I have not been aware of any such demonstration. The IMF performs an entirely different function: precisely that of ensuring that capital based outside of Latin America controls all of Latin America.Collection: Latin
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.Collection: Struggle
If you ask me the image of Latin America, there are sorne countries which oppress their peoples much more, and among the less - least oppressive, among those with which we could have perfectly normal relations without any difficulties - we could have Uruguay, Chile, maybe Costa Rica. But the U.S.. do not permit us.Collection: Country
...I also know - and this won't alter the course of history or your personal view of me - that you will die with a clenched fist and a tense jaw, the epitome of hatred and struggle, because you are not a symbol (some inanimate example) but a genuine member of the society to be destroyed; the spirit of the beehive speaks through your mouth and motivates your actions. You are as useful as I am, but you are not aware of how useful your contribution is to the society that sacrifices you.Collection: Struggle
Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another.Collection: Rain
If we had to kneel in order to live in peace, [ U.S. government] will have to kill us before.Collection: Government
The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.Collection: Wall
Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace.Collection: Country
How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering.Collection: Country
You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.Collection: Play
I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.Collection: Two
In industry, we are now concentrating our best effort in trying to make plants work at a maximum capacity, trying to replace the equipment which is in bad conditions due to lack of spare parts from the U.S.., that we cannot get from the U.S.; to extend our industry later on the basis of our primary resources. And to lessen our dependence on external markets and dedicate our efforts in 1965 to the aspect of security and hygiene of work, to make our plants better for the worker: that the worker may feel really a man there.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Adventure
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.Collection: Lakes
It is not just a simple game, it is a weapon of the revolution.Collection: Simple
The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and only rare talents may create their own work. The rest become shameless hacks or are crushed.Collection: Art
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 victoryCollection: Fate