Do not shoot! I am Che Guevara and worth more to you alive than dead.

The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy.

The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation

Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that ancient melancholy of smoke, unifying everything with its grayish monotones, a perfect coupling with the gray mountain days.