Thoughts by Che Guevara Quotes in English Quotations

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. 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.

In this world there is a need of individuals who work more and criticize less, who build more and destroy less, who promise less and solve more, expect to receive less and give more, and who say better now than tomorrow.

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.

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.

I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.

This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.

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.

It is there, in the final moments, for people whose farthest horizon has always been tomorrow, that one comprehends the profound tragedy circumscribing the life of the proletariat the world over.

As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neo colonialism.

Don’t be afraid, commander, I’ll die by your side!’ The trouble was, I didn’t want to die at all, I’d rather send him to the devil instead. I think that’s what I did in fact

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.

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 pierced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser.

Everyday people straighten up the hair, why not the heart.

This is the Cuzco asking you to pull on your armor and, mounted on the ample back of a powerful horse, cleave a path through the defenseless flesh of a naked Indian flock whose human wall collapses and disappears beneath the four hooves of the galloping beast.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.

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

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.

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

Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.

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Always struggle for victory.

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

Let’s be realistic demand the impossible.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.

Until the everlasting victory.

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

I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

If I lose, it will not mean that it was impossible to win.

It’s not my fault if reality is Marxist.

We must not let these harsh times destroy the warmth in our heart.

Let’s be realistic, try the impossible.

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

Let the world change you than you can change the world.

Homeland or death! We will triumph.

The best form of saying is being.

Words that do not match deeds are unimportant.

We won the war , the revolution begins now.

Homesickness starts with food.

It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness.

Don't Shoot! I'm Che. I'm worth more to you alive than dead!

You can live by your own rules.

To accomplish much, you must first lose everything.

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without a struggle.

Che Guevara Quotes in English

Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.

We must struggle every day so that this love for humanity becomes a reality.

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

All the rules in this word were made by someone no smarter then you. So make your own.

In a revolution, one triumphs or dies.

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

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

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill one man.

If you can find ways without any obstacles, it probably leads nowhere.

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

I don’t care if I fall, as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.

Above all, try to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world.

You gotta fight for every breath and tell death to go to hell.

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There are no borders in this struggle to the death.

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We must eliminate all newspapers; we cannot make a revolution with free press. Newspapers are instruments of the oligarchy.

Let’s be realistic. Let’s do the impossible!

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

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Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!

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Words that do not match deeds are not important.

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

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Better to die standing than to live on your knees.

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One must endure without losing tenderness.

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Be realistic, demand the impossible!

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We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity.

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If you can find ways without any obstacles, it probably leads now here.

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I have lived magnificent days.

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Words Without Deeds Are Worthless.

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I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

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To accomplish much you must first lose everything.

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

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

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Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace.

Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!

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

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

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

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

Every day you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize.

The basic clay of our work is the youth; we place our hope in it and prepare it to take the banner from our hands.

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

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

Man really attains the state of complete humanity when he produces, without being forced by physical need to sell himself as a commodity.

The world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.

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

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace.

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.

I don’t care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.

The world must not only be interpreted, but it must also be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.

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

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.

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.

I had a project for my life which involved ten years of wandering, then some years of medical studies, and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.

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

In this world there is a need of individuals who work more and criticize less, who build more and destroy less, who promise less and solve more, expect to receive less and give more, and who say better now than tomorrow.

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

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

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

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.

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

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.

To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution!

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.

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies.

We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as example, as a moving force.

I’m not a liberator. The liberators do not exist it is the people who liberate themselves.

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

I know you are here to kill me shoot. Coward, you are only going to kill a man.

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

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.

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

I don’t care if fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

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.

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.

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

Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous that the true revolutionary is guided by great feeling of love.

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.

Individualism as such, as the isolated action of a person alone in a social environment, must disappear in Cuba. Individualism tomorrow should be the proper utilization of the whole individual, to the absolute benefit of the community.

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

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

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.

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

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

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

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

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

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

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 turned out to be.

There is nothing that educates an honorable person more than living within a revolution.

One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.

I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.

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.

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.

The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation.

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

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.

Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another...

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

A petty concern with mere evidence is an antiquated and bourgeois feature of the captalist legal system. We are revolutionaries. We convict from a revolutionary passion.

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.

In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.

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

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.

Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

Allow me to say, at the risk of appearing ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is motivated by great feelings of love.

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.

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

I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ.... I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get nailed to a cross or any other place.

There are no frontiers in this struggle to the death. A victory for any member against imperialism is our victory, just as any country’s defeat is a defeat for all.

What are our primary goals? Our greatest goals? The great lines we must follow? From the political point of view, the first thing we want is to be masters of our own destiny, a country free from foreign interference, a country that seeks out its own system of development.