The Best Che Guevara quotes

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

In a revolution, one triumphs or dies. — Che Guevara

You know, comrade Pachman, I don’t enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela. — Che Guevara

We are not the ones who create revolutions. It is the imperialist system and its allies, internal allies, the ones who create revolution. — Che Guevara

It is not just a simple game, it is a weapon of the revolution. — Che Guevara

We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press. — Che Guevara

It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression. — Che Guevara

The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall. — Ernesto Che Guevara

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day. — Che Guevara

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

It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them. — Che Guevara

Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants. — Che Guevara

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses. — Che Guevara

Revolutions are not exportable: revolutions are created by oppressive conditions which Latin American countries exercise against their peoples. — Che Guevara

The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth. — Che Guevara

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats. — Che Guevara

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. — Che Guevara

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

The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self–determination. — Che Guevara

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. — Che Guevara

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. — Che Guevara

This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams. — Che Guevara

We have to dedicate our efforts to better the life, the time passed by the worker in the industrial plant. That will be one of our main efforts during the next year. — Che Guevara

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. — Che Guevara

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. — Che Guevara

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

At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. — Che Guevara

Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize. — Che Guevara

Every day you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize. — Che Guevara

There is one government with which we keep diplomatic relations, the government of Mexico, with which we have good relations. Our systems are different. We respect their system. — Che Guevara

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. — Che Guevara

We have taken plants from the capitalist system where the most important thing was to produce, especially in Cuba. — Che Guevara

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people. — Che Guevara

We put no condition of any kind to the U.S., we don’t want it to change its system, we don’t want racial discrimination to cease in the U.S., we put no conditions to the establishment of relations. — Che Guevara