Che Guevara

Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader Argentine-Cuban 1928 – 1967

Guerrilla revolutionary and icon of leftist movements worldwide.

423 quotes

"Each year one vows to take a trip that one never takes."
Time
"My weapon is not my gun but my example."
Leadership
"One can be a revolutionary and still maintain one's aesthetic sense."
Art
"The revolution is made by the people for the people."
"To be revolutionary is not a profession, it is a manner of life."
Life
"I came to feel as a profound emotion that which is called love of the people."
Love
"Yankee Imperialism is the greatest enemy of humanity."
Politics
"A revolutionary should be motivated by grand feelings of love for their fellow human being."
Inspiration
"The fact that a person loves freedom means that he hates oppression."
Freedom
"We are not going to build socialism through the personal example of our revolutionary leaders."
Wisdom
"I have come to communism through economics."
Knowledge
"How terrible is the poverty of man, the poverty of spirit, that I have been seeing."
Truth
"No wall of stone is so formidable as the wall of hate."
"In a revolution one wins or dies."
War
"One must be prepared to die for one's convictions."
Courage
"The future is a scientific calculation."
History
"We are all capable of dying. Do not worry; we will all be dead!"
Death
"The work of an individual revolutionary at this moment has no value."
Work
"I have sworn before the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny."
Freedom
"The conscience is a man's compass."
Wisdom
"We must be realists without ceasing to be dreamers."
Dreams
"There is no greater responsibility than inspiring others."
Leadership
"The peasant is mobile and restless."
Change
"Guerrilla warfare is a phase of warfare."
War
"I do not care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and continues shooting."
Perseverance
"Practice makes perfect and I have been practicing revolution since 1953."
"The most noble aspiration is the desire to be useful to others."
Kindness
"No economic order has ever voluntarily given up power."
Power
"Pessimism is a luxury that radicals cannot afford."
Hope
"Ideas that soar above the heads of the people do not lead anywhere."
Wisdom