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 guerrilla is supported by the peasant and worker masses of the region and of the whole territory in which it acts. Without these prerequisites, guerrilla warfare is not possible.”

“We know that sacrifices lie before us and that we must pay a price for the heroic act of being a vanguard nation. We leaders know that we must pay a price for the right to say that we are at the head of a people, which is at the head of the Americas. Each and every one of us must pay his exact quota of sacrifice, conscious that he will get his reward in the satisfaction of fulfilling a duty, conscious that he will advance with all toward the image of the new man dimly visible on the horizon.”

“In order to know about the illnesses of society, you have to know what men are suffering from, how they suffer.”

“Now a willpower that I have polished with an artist's delight will sustain some shaky legs and some weary lungs. I will do it. Give a thought once in awhile to this little soldier of fortune of the twentieth century.”

“Marxism was applied according to the concrete historical situation of Vietnam and because of the guiding role of the vanguard party, faithful to its people and consequently to its doctrine, a resounding victory was achieved over the (French) imperialists.”

“The North American government used the quota system on imports of Cuban sugar not only to protect her own sugar industry, as demanded by her own producers, but also to make possible the unrestricted introduction into our country of North American manufactured goods.”

“What is important, however, is that each day individuals are acquiring ever more consciousness of the need for their incorporation into society and, at the same time, of their importance as the motor of that society.”

“Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace. Peaceful coexistence must be exercised among all states, regardless of size, regardless of the previous historical relations that linked them, and regardless of the problems that may arise among some of them at a given moment.”

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

“The law of value is no longer simply a reflection of the relations of production; the monopoly capitalists — even while employing purely empirical methods — surround that law with a complicated scaffolding that turns it into a docile servant. The superstructure imposes a kind of art in which the artist must be educated. Rebels are subdued by the machine, and only exceptional talents may create their own work. The rest become shamefaced hirelings or are crushed.”

“We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it: to his home, to his centers of entertainment; a total war. It is necessary to prevent him from having a moment of peace, a quiet moment outside his barracks or even inside; we must attack him wherever he may be; make him feel like a cornered beast wherever he may move. Then his moral fiber shall begin to decline. He will even become more beastly, but we shall notice how the signs of decadence begin to appear.”

“At that moment Marx puts himself in a position where he becomes the necessary target of all who have a special interest in maintaining the old-similar to Democritus before him, whose work was burned by Plato and his disciples, the ideologues of Athenian slave aristocracy. Beginning with the revolutionary Marx, a political group with concrete ideas establishes itself. Basing itself on the giants, Marx and Engels, and developing through successive steps with personalities like Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and the new Soviet and Chinese rulers, it establishes a body of doctrine and, let us say, examples to follow.”

“The university should color itself black and color itself mulatto—not just as regards students but also professors.”

“We are doing everything possible to give labor this new status of social duty and to link it on the one side with the development of a technology which will create the conditions for greater freedom, and on the other side with voluntary work based on a Marxist appreciation of the fact that man truly reaches a full human condition when he produces without being driven by the physical need to sell his labor as a commodity.”

“Today the people stand at the door of the university, and it is the university that must be flexible. It must color itself black, mulatto, worker, peasant, or else be left without doors. And then the people will tear it apart and paint it with the colors they see fit.”

“The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.”

“We brought ten thousand head of cattle to the Sierra one day and said to the peasants, simply, "Eat". And the peasants, for the first time in years and years, some for the first time in their lives, ate beef.”

“When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law; peace is considered already broken.”

“Our universities produced lawyers and doctors for the old social system, but did not create enough agricultural extension teachers, agronomists, chemists, or physicists. In fact, we do not even have mathematicians.”

“The guerrilla fighter, who is general of himself, need not die in every battle… [a guerrilla fighter] is ready to die, not to defend an ideal, but rather to convert it into reality.”

“I leave a people who received me as a son. That wounds a part of my spirit. I carry to new battlefronts the faith that you taught me, the revolutionary spirit of my people, the feeling of fulfilling the most sacred of duties: to fight against imperialism wherever it may be.”

“Cuba became the sugar-producing and-exporting country par excellence; and if she did not develop even further in this respect, the reason is to be found in the capitalist contradictions which put a limit to a continuous expansion of the Cuban sugar industry, which depended almost entirely on North American capital.”

“One ought to be "Marxist' with the same naturalness with which one is "Newtonian" in physics, or "Pasteurian" in biology, considering that if facts determine new concepts, these new concepts will never divest themselves of that portion of truth possessed by the older concepts they have outdated.”

“In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one.”

“In order to change a way of thinking, it is necessary to undergo profound internal changes and to witness profound external changes, especially in the performance of our duties and obligations to society.”

“Wealth is far from being within the reach of the masses simply through the process of appropriation.”

“I think the place to start is to recognize the individual's quality of incompleteness, of being an unfinished product. The vestiges of the past are brought into the present in one's consciousness, and a continual labor is necessary to eradicate them.”

“I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ…. I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get nailed to a cross or any other place.”

“War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems in order to achieve the goal.”