Che Guevara Quotes

Che Guevara's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory.

I can write a song about my hero Che Guevara and call it 'Song for Che.'

Nobody knows this, but my hero is Che Guevara. Why? Because he was magic. He was a hero. Che resisted. He fought against the system.

Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none.

Che Guevara taught us we could dare to have confidence in ourselves, confidence in our abilities. He instilled in us the conviction that struggle is our only recourse. He, was a citizen of the free world that together we are in the process of building. That is why we say that Che Guevara is also African and Burkinabè.

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.

Do not survive to suffer the dishonor of capture.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

Raul Reyes was a good revolutionary. I knew him personally.

In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.

I have very liberal parents. People forget that Fidel Castro was on the cover of 'Time' magazine, and the one that I remember the most - it's not necessarily my favorite - was when they dressed me as Castro when I was eight years old. I was in fatigues, camouflage hat, beard and cigar. I don't think I did that well with candy that year.

Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He's a living legend: an icon of independence and freedom across the continent.

Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy them do not survive because they observe the niceties of law. Subversives who shape world events by covert action and violence work in shadows and detest the light of day.

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in Latin America, such as in Cuba - failed for the most part, a failure which was completely clear by the end of the century.

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination.

I'm kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Freedom is won by violence, but needs mutual tolerance to survive.

Let me live and I will do all you wish.

Hell no! Not one thing! You don't reward a kidnapper.

A defection is better than a surrender, a surrender is better than a capture, and a capture is better than a kill.

I am a patient man—always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance. Still I must save this government if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do; but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.