Che Guevara

More from Che Guevara

• 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

All 12 quotes from Che Guevara

Popular quotes

• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy