War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.
Che GuevaraOnce again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm.
Che GuevaraThere 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 GuevaraMany 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 truths.
Che GuevaraArms cannot be regarded as merchandise in our world. They should be delivered to the peoples asking for them for use against the common enemy without any charge at all, and in quantities determined by the need and their availability.
Che GuevaraEveryday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize.
Che GuevaraAt 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 GuevaraIf any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.
Che GuevaraI 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.
Che GuevaraWe do not have elections. But the great majority of the Cuban people supports its government.
Che GuevaraThe fundamental principle is that no battle, combat, or skirmish is to be fought unless it will be won.
Che GuevaraWe are not the ones who create revolutions. It is the imperialist system and its allies, internal allies, the ones who create revolution.
Che GuevaraI will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.
Che GuevaraAnd 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 GuevaraI knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know this, I see it printed in the night sky that I, eclectic dissembler of doctrine and psychoanalyst of dogma, howling like one possessed, will assault the barricades or the trenches , will take my bloodstained weapon, and consumed with fury, slaughter any enemy who falls into my hands.
Che GuevaraAbove all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.
Che GuevaraI knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.
Che GuevaraThe word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed sediment of a muddy lake when you touch its bottom.
Che GuevaraIf we had to kneel in order to live in peace, [ U.S. government] will have to kill us before.
Che GuevaraWhile envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America.
Che GuevaraSocialism is young and has made errors. Many times revolutionaries lack the knowledge and intellectual courage needed to meet the task of developing the new man with methods different from the conventional ones - and the conventional methods suffer from the influences of the society, which created them.
Che GuevaraI wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America.
Che GuevaraAs long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.
Che GuevaraA 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 GuevaraIt is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.
Che GuevaraThe blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their patch invaded by a different kind of slave: The Portuguese. the black is indolent and fanciful, he spends his money on frivolity and drink; the European comes from a tradition of working and saving which follows him to this corner of America and drives him to get ahead.
Che GuevaraRevolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.
Che GuevaraIf you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.
Che GuevaraI am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from people's psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life.
Che GuevaraHow can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering.
Che GuevaraTo 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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