186 Quotes by che guevara

Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.

Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy.

Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians.

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...

A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.

...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.

To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.