Ernesto Che Guevara quotes

Ernesto (Che) Guevara Quotes

This page provides quotes from Ernesto (Che) Guevara.

"I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting."

"If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine."

"Until victory always"

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

"Silence is argument carried out by other means."

"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."

"Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!"

"In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm"

"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."

"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."

"We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity."

"It is not just a simple game, it is a weapon of the revolution."

"Better to die standing, than to live on your knees."

"I don't know if the Cuban revolution will survive or not. It's difficult to say. But [if it doesn't]... don't come looking for me among the refugees in the embassies. I've had that experience, and I'm not ever going to repeat it. I will go out with a machine gun in my hand, to the barricades... I'll keep fighting to the end."

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

"It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies."