Ernesto Che Guevara Quotes

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

سعی کردند که ما را دفن کنند،
دریغ از این که ما بذر بودیم...

Dejeme decirie,
a risego de parecer ridiculo,
que el revolucionario verdadero
esta guiado por grandes sentimientos de amor.

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

At night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look out 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 our 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.

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.

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.

...I also know - and this won't alter the course of history or your personal view of me - that you will die with a clenched fist and a tense jaw, the epitome of hatred and struggle, because you are not a symbol (some inanimate example) but a genuine member of the society to be destroyed; the spirit of the beehive speaks through your mouth and motivates your actions. You are as useful as I am, but you are not aware of how useful your contribution is to the society that sacrifices you.

لا يهمني متى أو أين أموت لكن همي الوحيد أن لا ينام البرجوازيون بكل ثقلهم فوق أجساد أطفال الفقراء والمعذبين وأن لا يغفو العالم بكل ثقله على جماجم البائسين والكادحين

هذا الإنسان الجديد يجب أن يتسم بالمبادرة ، فعليه أن يطور قدراته الفردية ، وأن يكون شخصية إبداعية ؛ ومن أجل بناء المجتمع الجديد لسنا بحاجة الى دُمى تهزّ رأسها موافقة على كل شيء ، بل على العكس من ذلك إننا بحاجة الى مُناضلين نشيطين ، لا يعملون من أجل مصالح شخصية ، إنما يُشاركون في بناء المجتمع الإشتراكي بإبداع .

The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It was - I don't know how to explain it - as if everything solid melted away into the ether, eliminating all individualtiy and absorbing us, rigid, into the immense darkness. Not a single cloud to lend perspective to the space blocked any portion of the starry sky.

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know this, I see it printed in the night sky that I, eclectic dissembler of doctrine and psychoanalyst of dogma, howling like one possessed, will assault the barricades or the trenches , will take my bloodstained weapon, and consumed with fury, slaughter any enemy who falls into my hands.

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

Hay que luchar por cada bocanada de aire y enviar la muerte al carajo.

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.

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