03UndatedWe cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.Ernesto Che Guevara / quote ↗
04UndatedThe revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.Ernesto Che Guevara / quote ↗
05UndatedWhen 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.Ernesto Che Guevara / quote ↗
06UndatedHay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura.[It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness]Ernesto Che Guevara / quote ↗
08UndatedI now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...Ernesto Che Guevara / quote ↗
09UndatedHis wife spotted the danger in our resolutely bohemian ways."You have only one year left before you qualify as a doctor and yet you're going away? You have no idea when you'll be back? But why?"We couldn't give precise answers to her desperate questions and this horrified her...Ernesto Che Guevara / quote ↗
10UndatedAll 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.Ernesto Che Guevara / quote ↗
11UndatedI 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.Ernesto Che Guevara / quote ↗
12UndatedAt 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.Ernesto Che Guevara / quote ↗
13UndatedIf you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.Ernesto Che Guevara / quote ↗
14UndatedTo send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].Ernesto Che Guevara / quote ↗
15UndatedSome give the impression they go on living only because it's a habit they cannot shakeErnesto Che Guevara / quote ↗
16UndatedWe must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla is a social reformer, who takes up arms responding to the angry protests of the people against their oppressors, and who fights to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and poverty.Ernesto Che Guevara / quote ↗
17UndatedIndividuals start to see themselves reflected in their work and to understand their full status as human beings through the object created, through the work accomplished. Work no longer entails surrendering a part of one's being in the form of labor power sold, which no longer belongs to the individual, but becomes an expression of oneself, a contribution to the common life in which one is reflected, the fulfillment of one's social duty.Ernesto Che Guevara / quote ↗
18UndatedThe 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.Ernesto Che Guevara / quote ↗
19UndatedYouth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates... Instead, they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service, should learn to think and act as a mass.Ernesto Che Guevara / quote ↗
20UndatedI knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.Ernesto Che Guevara / quote ↗
