The quotations of

Che Guevara

Argentine Marxist revolutionary

1928–1967

12 quotes, most often on Politics, Life & Death and Justice.

I know you’ve come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Reported last words, to his executioner, La Higuera, Bolivia (9 October 1967)
- Courage
- Life & Death
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Intercontinental Press (Vol. 3 January-April 1965)
- Change
- Politics
Above 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.
Letter to his Children (1965)
- Justice
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.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
- Love
For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another.
Afro-Asian Conference (1965)
- Economics
- Politics
There are no borders in this struggle to the death.
Afro-Asian Conference (1965)
- War & Peace
We, politely referred to as “underdeveloped,” in truth are colonial, semi-colonial or dependent countries.
Cuba as Vanguard (1961)
- Politics
Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I’m on the road with my shield on my arm.
Last Letter to his Parents (1965)
The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.
On Revolutionary Medicine (1960)
- Life & Death
- Money
The basic clay of our work is the youth; we place our hope in it and prepare it to take the banner from our hands.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
- Hope
- Youth
Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am… only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.
Last Letter to his Parents (1965)
- Risk
I don’t think you and I are very closely related, however, if you are capable of trembling with indignation each time that an injustice is committed anywhere in the world, we are comrades, and that is more important.
Letter to María Rosario Guevara, 20 February 1964. Quoted in Guerrillas in Power: The Course of the Cuban Revolution (1971) by K. S. Karol
- Justice

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