Che Guevara citáty

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27 revolučních myšlenek, které posunou vaše vnímání světa

„Pokud se třesete rozhořčením nad každou nespravedlností, pak jste mým soudruhem.“

„Mnozí mi budou říkat dobrodruh, a tím i jsem ... jen takový odlišný: takový, kdo riskuje svůj život, aby dokázal svou pravdu.“

„Život jakéhokoliv jediného člověka na světě je cennější než všechen majetek nejbohatšího muže planety.“

„Revoluce je jako jízdní kolo. Když nejede dopředu, padá.“

„Ti, jež zabíjejí své vlastní děti a denně je rozlišují podle barvy jejich kůže; ti jež nechávají vrahy černochů nepotrestané, ochraňují je, a nadto trestají černé obyvatelstvo, protože požaduje legitimní práva jako svobodní lidé – jak můžou ti, jež činí toto, považovat sami sebe za ochránce svobody? Vláda Spojených států není obránce svobody, ale pachatel vykořisťování a útisku proti národům z celého světa a dokonce proti velké části svého vlastního obyvatelstva.“

„Chci cítit na tváři úder zasažený do tváře kteréhokoliv člověka…“

„Ať žije revoluce!“

„Vlast nebo smrt!“

„Až ke konečnému vítězství!“

„V okamžiku, kdy to bude nezbytné, budu připraven položit život za svobodu kteréhokoliv latinskoamerického národa, bez ptaní kohokoliv na cokoliv, bez jakýchkoliv požadavků, bez využití kohokoliv.“

„Revoluce není jako jablko, které spadne, když je zralé. Musíte jí pomoct.“

„Pokojné soužití nemůže být omezeno na mocné země, jestliže chceme zabezpečit světový mír.“

„Každý náš čin je bojovým pokřikem proti imperialismu, a zároveň bojová hymna za spojení lidí proti největšímu nepříteli lidstva: Spojeným státům americkým.“

„Nezajímá mě, jestli padnu, pokud někdo jiný zvedne zbraň a bude dál střílet.“

„Vždy k vítězství! (Hasta la victoria siempre!)“

„První povinností revolucionáře je být vzdělaný.“

„Kuba byla vyvinuta jako cukrovar ve Spojených státech.“

„Popravovali jsme, popravujeme a budeme popravovat.“

„V této válce za svobodu není vojáka srovnatelného s Camilem.“

„Revoluce musí být nenávist a zabíjet.“

„Ať vás svět změní a vy můžete změnit svět.“

„Počátky nebudou snadné; musí být nesmírně obtížné.“

„Vyrůstejte jako dobří revolucionáři.“

„Můj marxismus zakořenil a stal se očištěným.“

„Společnost jako celek musí být přeměněna na gigantickou školu.“

“The International Monetary Fund is the watchdog of the dollar in the capitalist camp.”

“In most countries the large landholders realized they couldn't survive alone and promptly entered into alliances with the monopolies — the strongest and most ruthless oppressors of the Latin American peoples. U. S. capital arrived on the scene to exploit the virgin lands and later carried off, unnoticed, all the funds so “generously” given, plus several times the amount originally invested in the "beneficiary" country.”

“Our children must have, or lack, those things that the children of the ordinary citizen have or lack; our families should understand this and struggle for it to be that way.”

“The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth.”

“The socialist countries must help pay for the development of countries now starting out on the road to liberation.”

“Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm.”

“Our America is integrated by a group of more or less homogeneous countries and in most parts of its territory U. S. monopolist capitals maintain an absolute supremacy. Puppet governments or, in the best of cases, weak and fearful local rulers, are incapable of contradicting orders from their Yankee master.”

“Much more definitive and much more lasting than all the gold that one can accumulate is the gratitude of a people.”

“A more structured connection with the mass is needed, and we must improve it in the course of the coming years. But as far as initiatives originating in the upper strata of the government are concerned, we are currently utilizing the almost intuitive method of sounding out general reactions to the great problems we confront.
In this Fidel is a master. His own special way of fusing himself with the people can be appreciated only by seeing him in action. At the great public mass meetings one can observe something like the dialogue of two tuning forks whose vibrations interact, producing new sounds. Fidel and the mass begin to vibrate together in a dialogue of growing intensity until they reach the climax in an abrupt conclusion crowned by our cry of struggle and victory.”

“And the imperialists? Will they sit with their arms crossed? No! The system they practice is the cause of the evils from which we are suffering, but they will try to obscure the facts with spurious allegations, of which they are masters.”

“To build communism it is necessary, simultaneous with the new material foundations, to build the new man and woman.”

“We have to remind ourselves of this at every moment: that we are in a war, a cold war as they call it; a war where there is no front line, no continuous bombardment, but where the two adversaries — this tiny champion of the Caribbean and the immense imperialist hyena — are face to face and aware that one of them is going to end up dead in the fight.”

“We must agree that the socialist countries are, in a certain way, accomplices of imperialist exploitation … The socialist countries have the moral duty to put an end to their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.”

“The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, a decline in collective enthusiasm is reflected by a resulting quantitative decrease of the contribution of each individual, each of the elements forming the whole of the masses. Work is so paralysed that insignificant quantities are produced. It is time to make a correction.”

“Our free eyes open now on new horizons and can see what yesterday, in our condition as colonial slaves, we could not observe: that “Western Civilization” disguises behind its showy facade a picture of hyenas and jackals … A carnivorous animal that feeds on unarmed peoples.”

“In any case the road to success is pictured as one beset with perils but which, it would seem, an individual with the proper qualities can overcome to attain the goal. The reward is seen in the distance; the way is lonely. Further on it is a route for wolves; one can succeed only at the cost of the failure of others.”

“Guerrilla warfare is a people's warfare; an attempt to carry out this type of war without the population's support is a prelude to inevitable disaster.”

“Moral missiles are such a devastatingly effective weapon that they have become the most important element in determining Cuba's value.”

“The great multitudes continue to develop; the new ideas continue to attain their proper force within society; the material possibilities for the full development of all members of society make the task much more fruitful. The present is a time for struggle; the future is ours.”

“Development cannot be left to complete improvisation. It is necessary to plan the construction of the new society. Planning is one of the laws of socialism, and without it, socialism would not exist. Without correct planning there can be no adequate guarantee that all the various sectors of a country's economy will combine harmoniously to take the leaps forward that our epoch demands.”

“In this period of the building of socialism we can see the new man and woman being born. The image is not yet completely finished — it never will be, since the process goes forward hand in hand with the development of new economic forms.”

“The individual under socialism, despite apparent standardization, is more complete.”

“The change in consciousness will not take place automatically, just as it doesn't take place automatically in the economy. The alterations are slow and are not harmonious; there are periods of acceleration, pauses and even retrogressions.”

“I feel that I have fulfilled the part of my duty that tied me to the Cuban revolution in its territory, and I say farewell to you, to the comrades, to your people, who now are mine.”

“In underdeveloped America, the countryside is the basic area for armed fighting.”

“Cuba hopes that her children will see a better future, and that victory will not have to be won at the cost of millions of human lives destroyed by the atomic bomb.”

“Great strategic links are being developed abroad to destroy our Revolution. Those forces are trying to attract all those who have been hurt by the Revolution. We do not refer to the embezzlers, criminals, or the members of the old government; we are thinking of those who have remained on the margin of this revolutionary process, those who have lost economically but support the Revolution in a limited way.”

“Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism, and a battle hymn for the people's unity against the great enemy of mankind: the United States of America.”

“The people are weary of being oppressed, persecuted, exploited to the maximum. They are weary of the wretched selling of their labor-power day after day — faced with the fear of joining the enormous mass of unemployed — so that the greatest profit can be wrung from each human body, profit later squandered in the orgies of the masters of capital.”