Quotes by Ernesto Che Guevara

“Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?”

“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”

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

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

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

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

“His wife spotted the danger in our resolutely bohemian ways."You have only one year left before you qualify as a doctor and yet you're going away? You have no idea when you'll be back? But why?"We ...”

“The best form of saying is being”

“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.”

“All night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us far ...”

“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 t...”

“At night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look out over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us f...”

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

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”

“To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motiva...”

“We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla is a social reformer, who takes up arms responding to the angry protests of the people against their oppressors, and who fights to chang...”

“Individuals start to see themselves reflected in their work and to understand their full status as human beings through the object created, through the work accomplished. Work no longer entails sur...”

“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.”

“Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates... Instead, they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service, should learn to think and act as a mass.”

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