Ernesto Che Guevara Quotes

The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.

إن الطريق مظلم وحالك فإذا لم تحترق أنت وأنا فمن سينير الطريق

The guerilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war. But this war will continue on its course; contradictions will continuously become sharper; the moment will arrive when many of those who regarded the revolution with a certain sympathy at the outset will place themselves in a position diametrically opposed; and they will take the first step into battle against the popular forces. At that moment the guerilla fighter should act to make himself into the standard bearer of the cause of the people, punishing every betrayal with justice.

I began to come into close contact with poverty, with hunger, with disease, with the inability to cure a child because of a lack of resources… And I began to see there was something that, at that time, seemed to me almost as important as being a famous researcher or making some substantial contribution to medical science, and this was helping those people.

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 away, flying in his own aircraft to the stratospheric regions of his own dreams. There we understood that our vocation, our true vocation, was to move for eternity along the roads and seas of the world. Always curious, looking into everything that came before our eyes, sniffing out each corner but only ever faintly — not setting down roots in any land or staying long enough to see the substratum of things the outer limits would suffice.

Democracy represents the dictatorship of the exploiting classes.

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

:او در میان هق هق گریه هاش به ما گفت
زندگی من صلیبی است که مرا بر آن میخکوب کرده اند

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

The best form of saying is being

Today none of the old assertions are accepted any longer just because they were written long ago. Instead, people demand proof in practice of what is asserted; they want a scientific analysis of all assertions. Out of this dissatisfaction, revolutionary ideas are born and spread more and more throughout the world, backed by the living examples of how technology can be put at the service of man, as has happened in the socialist countries.

ان ثورتنا قد صنعها أمثال دافيد الذين لم يكونوا يفهمون كثيرا ، وأمثال بانديراس الذين سقطوا صرعى قبل أن يروا انبثاق الفجر ، كما صنعتها التضحيات العمياء ، التضحيات المغفلة التي لم تنل جزاء ولا شكورا . ونحن الذين نستطيع اليوم أن نتأمل في انجازات الثورة ، علينا أن نذكر اولئك الذين سقطوا على الطريق ونبذل كل الجهد لكي يقل عددهم في المستقبل

ذلك هو طراز الرجال الذين كانت تجري بهم الثورة. فهم في البدء ثوار على كل ظلم ، ثوار منفردون ينتهي بهم الأمر الى أن يعتادوا الانشغال بشؤونهم الشخصية الصغيرة دون الاهتمام بقلب النظام الاجتماعي. ولا تكاد الثورة ترخي لحظة قبضة مراقبتها بعض الشيء حتى يقعوا في الأخطاء التي تقودهم الى الجريمة بسهولة مذهلة
كان الظرف يقتضي قبضة حديدية. لقد كان يجب انزال عقوبة تكون عبرة لوضع حد لكل محاولة خروج على النظام وتصفية بؤر الفوضوية في تلك المناطق المحرومة من حكومة مستقرة

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.

«Se tremes diante de qualquer injustiça, estejas onde for, então somos companheiros»