152 quotes
From the very beginning of the struggle he has the intention of destroying an unjust order and therefore an intention, more or less hidden, to replace the old with something new.
Guerrilla Warfare (1961)
"Know yourself and your adversary and you will be able to fight a hundred battles without a single disaster." This Chinese aphorism is as valuable for guerrilla warfare as a biblical psalm.
Guerrilla Warfare (1961)
Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace.
Address to the United Nations (1964)
The seizure of power is a worldwide objective of the revolutionary forces.
Tactics and Strategy of the Latin American Revolution (1962)
Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.
Letter to his Children (1965)
The guerrilla fighter, as a person conscious of a role in the vanguard of the people, must have a moral conduct that shows him to be a true priest of the reform to which he aspires.
Guerrilla Warfare (1961)
I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.
We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
Wise Guys : Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men (2005)
Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.
On Revolutionary Medicine (1960)
Everything we thought and felt in that past period ought to be deposited in an archive, and a new type of human being created.
On Revolutionary Medicine (1960)
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Revolution will be a tangible demonstration before all the Americas that peoples are capable of rising up, that they can rise up by themselves right under the very fangs of the monster.
The laws of capitalism, blind and invisible to the majority, act upon the individual without his thinking about it.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Now you have the privilege of living in another era and you must be worthy of it.
Birthday Letter to his Daughter (1966)
Our task is to prevent the present generation, torn asunder by its conflicts, from becoming perverted and from perverting new generations.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
The road is long and full of difficulties.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
How close we could look into a bright future should two, three or many Vietnams flourish throughout the world.
Message to the Tricontinental (1967)
To build communism it is necessary, simultaneous with the new material foundations, to build the new man and woman.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Far more important than a good remuneration is the pride of serving one's neighbor.
On Revolutionary Medicine (1960)