“Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.”

Che Guevara

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

Che Guevara

“We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it: to his home, to his centers of entertainment; a total war.”

Che Guevara · Message to the Tricontinental, 1967

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

Che Guevara

“Words that do not match deeds are unimportant.”

Che Guevara

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

Che Guevara · Last words, October 9, 1967, La Higuera, Bolivia

“How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?”

Che Guevara · The Motorcycle Diaries

“The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.”

Che Guevara · Speech at the United Nations, December 11, 1964

“Hasta la victoria siempre.”

Che Guevara · Farewell letter to Fidel Castro, 1965

“Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, he can find it. The important thing is to dig it out and use it.”

Che Guevara

“Let the world change you and you can change the world.”

Che Guevara · The Motorcycle Diaries

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.”

Che Guevara

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”

Che Guevara

“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.”

Che Guevara

“The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.”

Che Guevara · Message to the Tricontinental, 1967

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

Epictetus · Fragments