Che Guevara Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.”
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“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.”
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“We must strive everyday so that love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.”
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“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.”
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“Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted.”
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“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.”
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“It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.”
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“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”
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“Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.”
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“The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.”
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“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.”
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“Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.”
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“The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.”
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“The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.”
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“We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.”
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“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”
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“Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.”
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“I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.”
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“To 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.”
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“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
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“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.”
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“...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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.”
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“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.”
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“Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.”
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