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Che Guevara Quotes

1928–1967

Also known as: Che, Che Guevera, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Ernesto Guevara, Guevara, Che, Guevara, Ernesto

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

This epic before us is going to be written by the hungry Indian masses, the peasants without land, the exploited workers.

Address to the United Nations (1964)

For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another.

Afro-Asian Conference (1965)

Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.

On Development (1964)

At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)

The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

On Revolutionary Medicine (1960)

We, politely referred to as "underdeveloped," in truth are colonial, semi-colonial or dependent countries.

Cuba as Vanguard (1961)

The part that the woman can play in the development of a revolutionary process is of extraordinary importance.

Guerrilla Warfare (1961)

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

The Quotable Rebel : Political Quotations for Dangerous Times (2005)

When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law; peace is considered already broken.

Guerrilla Warfare (1961)

The beginnings will not be easy; they shall be extremely difficult.

Message to the Tricontinental (1967)

If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life.

The Many Faces of Socialism Comparative Sociology and Politics (1983)

Your father has been a man who acted according to his beliefs and certainly has been faithful to his convictions.

Letter to his Children (1965)

Much more definitive and much more lasting than all the gold that one can accumulate is the gratitude of a people.

On Revolutionary Medicine (1960)

I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation.

The Many Faces of Socialism Comparative Sociology and Politics (1983)

Assaults and terrorism in indiscriminate form should not be employed.

Guerrilla Warfare (1961)

The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.

The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought.

Notes on the Cuban Revolution (1960)

Wealth is far from being within the reach of the masses simply through the process of appropriation.

Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)

In a revolution, one triumphs or dies (if it is a true revolution).

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Che Guevara (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.