- Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Be realistic, demand the impossible.
- Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.
- Let the world change you and you can change the world.
- Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
- Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.
- If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
- If you consider that the things that we are doing in the people's interest represent manifestations of communism, then call us communists. If you are asking whether I am a member of the Partido Socialista Popular, the answer is no.
- It is not just a simple game, it is a weapon of the revolution.
- I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
- Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
- The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
- I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
- Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
- I don't know if the Cuban revolution will survive or not. It's difficult to say. But [if it doesn't] . . . don't come looking for me among the refugees in the embassies. I've had that experience, and I'm not ever going to repeat it. I will go out with a machine gun in my hand, to the barricades. . . I'll keep fighting to the end.
- We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
- And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.
- To die under the flag of Vietnam, of Venezuela, of Guatemala, of Laos, of Guinea, of Colombia, of Bolivia, of Brazil-to name only a few scenes of today’s armed struggle-would be equally glorious and desirable for an American, an Asian, an African, even a European.
- There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country’s defeat is a defeat for all of us.
- I am not a liberator.
- I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.
- Every day people straighten up the hair, why not the heart.
- And then many things became very clear, we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.
- There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.
- The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.
- I would rather die standing up than to live life on my knees.
- The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day!
- The Revolutionary is not a portrait. It's a landscape!
- In a revolution, one triumphs or dies.
