Che Guevara Quotes

While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America.

The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.

Revolutions are not exportable: revolutions are created by oppressive conditions which Latin American countries exercise against their peoples.

It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.

Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm.

We have denounced in all assemblies, in all places where we have had the opportunity to speak, the illegality of flights and the fact that there is a base against the will of the Cuban people.

One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created.

We do not have elections. But the great majority of the Cuban people supports its government.

We have to dedicate our efforts to better the life, the time passed by the worker in the industrial plant. That will be one of our main efforts during the next year.

We are not the ones who create revolutions. It is the imperialist system and its allies, internal allies, the ones who create revolution.

Let's liquidate all the atomic bases in Cuba and in the U.S. and we are in complete agreement with that.

The fact of the attempted suicide by Augusto Martinez was explained in a concise and exact form by our government in a communique. There is absolutely nothing else to add.

There is one government with which we keep diplomatic relations, the government of Mexico, with which we have good relations. Our systems are different. We respect their system.

We will not accept any conditions from the U.S.

We put no condition of any kind to the U.S., we don't want it to change its system, we don't want racial discrimination to cease in the U.S., we put no conditions to the establishment of relations.

We have taken plants from the capitalist system where the most important thing was to produce, especially in Cuba.

I do not imply that in the U.S plants, industrial plants, are places of exploitation where man is oppressed. 1 know that there are a great number of advantages here for too American worker.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.

When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he is a “Newtonian” or of a biologist when asked if he is a “Pasteurian.

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

The best form of saying is being

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...

Some give the impression they go on living only because it's a habit they cannot shake

The psychological effects of the sun are strange: it had not yet appeared over the horizon and we already felt comforted, just imagining the heat it would bring.

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

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.

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.

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

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.