I don’t care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
—Che Guevara
Topics: Determination
Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
—Che Guevara
Topics: Revolution, Love
Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism, and a battle hymn for the people’s unity against the great enemy of mankind: the United States of America. Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, may have reached some receptive ear, that another hand may be extended to wield our weapons, and that other men be ready to intone our funeral dirge with the staccato singing of the machine guns and new battle cries of war and victory.
—Che Guevara
Topics: Death, Battle, Action
We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
—Che Guevara
Topics: Life
The monopoly capitalists – even while employing purely empirical methods – weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and only rare talents may create their own work. The rest become shameless hacks or are crushed.
—Che Guevara
Topics: The Artist
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
—Che Guevara
Topics: Revolution
Words that do not match deeds are not important.
—Che Guevara
Topics: Action, Communication
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
—Che Guevara
Topics: One liners, Arguments, Silence
I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.
—Che Guevara
Topics: Freedom
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