Che Guevara citáty
Che Guevara
Dátum narodenia: 14. jún 1928
Dátum úmrtia: 9. október 1967
Ďalšie mená: Эрнесто Че Гевара
Dr. Ernesto Guevara , všeobecne známy ako Che Guevara bol argentínsko-kubánsky lekár a marxistický revolucionár, jeden z hlavných veliteľov partizánskych jednotiek počas Kubánskej revolúcie.
Citáty Che Guevara
„If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.“
As quoted in The Quotable Rebel : Political Quotations for Dangerous Times (2005) by Teishan Latner, p. 112
Varianta: If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
„I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.“
Varianta: I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
„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); also, in Che Guevara speaks: Selected Speeches and Writings (1967)
„We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.“
As quoted in Wise Guys : Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men (2005) by Allan Zullo, p. 36
„The inflow of capital from the developed countries is the prerequisite for the establishment of economic dependence.“
On Development (1964)
Kontext: The inflow of capital from the developed countries is the prerequisite for the establishment of economic dependence. This inflow takes various forms: loans granted on onerous terms; investments that place a given country in the power of the investors; almost total technological subordination of the dependent country to the developed country; control of a country's foreign trade by the big international monopolies; and in extreme cases, the use of force as an economic weapon in support of the other forms of exploitation.
„Socialism is young and has made errors.“
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Kontext: Socialism is young and has made errors. Many times revolutionaries lack the knowledge and intellectual courage needed to meet the task of developing the new man with methods different from the conventional ones — and the conventional methods suffer from the influences of the society, which created them.
„Remember, there are still many years of struggle ahead, and even when you are a woman, you will have to do your part in the struggle.“
Birthday Letter to his Daughter (1966)
Kontext: Remember, there are still many years of struggle ahead, and even when you are a woman, you will have to do your part in the struggle. Meanwhile, you have to prepare yourself, be very revolutionary — which at your age means to learn a lot, as much as possible, and always be ready to support just causes.
„When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist or a biologist when asked if he is a "Newtonian," or if he is a "Pasteurian".“
Notes on the Cuban Revolution (1960)
Kontext: When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist or a biologist when asked if he is a "Newtonian," or if he is a "Pasteurian". There are truths so evident, so much a part of people's knowledge, that it is now useless to discuss them.
„The laws of capitalism, blind and invisible to the majority, act upon the individual without his thinking about it.“
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Kontext: The laws of capitalism, blind and invisible to the majority, act upon the individual without his thinking about it. He sees only the vastness of a seemingly infinite horizon before him. That is how it is painted by capitalist propagandists, who purport to draw a lesson from the example of Rockefeller — whether or not it is true — about the possibilities of success.
The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude entails, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this.
„Grow up as good revolutionaries.“
Letter to his Children (1965)
Kontext: Grow up as good revolutionaries. Study hard to be able to dominate the techniques that permit the domination of nature. Remember that the Revolution is what is important and that each of us, on our own, is worthless.
