Che Guevara Quotes

To execute a man we don’t need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it’s necessary to execute him. It’s that simple.

Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians.

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?

The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

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.

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.