47 Che Guevara Quotes About Life, Injustice, and Revolution

Liputan6.com, Jakarta - Some words stay with people for a very long time. Che Guevara quotes are a strong example of this. Even today, many people around the world are still looking for and reading his words. They speak about justice, struggle, and the desire for a better world, feelings that many people still understand.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara was born in Argentina in 1928. He trained as a medical doctor, but he became one of the most well-known revolutionary figures of the 20th century. He played a key role in the Cuban Revolution and later tried to start similar movements in Africa and Bolivia. His ideas about fighting inequality and giving power to poor people made Che Guevara quotes popular across many countries and generations.

In this article, we have gathered some of the most famous Che Guevara quotes on various topics. These quotes give a small window into the mind of a man who chose to fight for what he believed in, until the very end.

1. "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. It exists when people liberate themselves."

2. "I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man."

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

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

5. "Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes."

6. "Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am...only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths."

7. "I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees."

8. "I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people."

9. "I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever."

10. "Be realistic, demand the impossible!"

1. "One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness."

2. "We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it."

3. "Silence is argument carried out by other means."

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

5. "Every day people straighten up the hair, why not the heart?"

6. "Let the world change you and you can change the world."

7. "And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth."

8. "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."

9. "It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies."

10. "Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser."

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

12. "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."

13. "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."

14. "For me, the sea has always been a confidant, a friend absorbing all it is told and never revealing those secrets; always giving the best advice - its meaningful noises can be interpreted any way you choose."

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

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

3. "The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated."

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

5. "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."

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

7. "The guerrilla fighters should be required to go to bed and get up at fixed hours. Games that have no social function and that hurt the morale of the troops and the consumption of alcoholic drinks should both be prohibited."

8. "There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us."

9. "The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day."

10. "Adherence to principles, and adherence to the individual, combine to make the Rebel Army an indivisible fist."

11. "Revolution is impersonal; it will take their lives, even utilizing their memory as an example or as an instrument for domesticating the youth who follow them."

1. "It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision."

2. "I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain."

3. "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."

4. "Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel."

5. "When people hate their government, it is easy to take it down."

6. "The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study."

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

8. "Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity."

9. "There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man."

1. "If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine."

2. "Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary."

3. "There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man."