Che Guevara citáty

strana 8

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.“

“We must remember that machines do not, as in the capitalist system, compete with workers or enslave workers. Workers must view machines as the liberators of their force. Machines are placed at the service of workers as soon as the exploitation of man by man stops. And that is what we are striving for: we are trying to turn machines into liberating instruments of peasants, so they will have more time for leisure, so they will have more time to study, to develop in every sense, to achieve the most important thing we must achieve: individuals developed to the full, this is the aim we are all struggling for.”

“The fault of many of our artists and intellectuals lies in their original sin: they are not true revolutionaries. We can try to graft the elm tree so that it will bear pears, but at the same time we must plant pear trees. New generations will come that will be free of original sin.”

“The solidarity of all progressive forces of the world towards the people of Vietnam today is similar to the bitter irony of the plebeians coaxing on the gladiators in the Roman arena. It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory.”

“Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final defeat save through effort and sacrifice on the part of us all.”

“It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making a revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.”

“If my final hour finds me under other skies, my last thought will be of this people and especially of you.”

“I would say that in order to reach the people you must feel as if you are part of the people. You must know what the people want, what they need, and what they feel. You must do a little self-analysis, study the university's statistics, and ask how many workers, how many peasants, how many men who make their living by their sweat eight hours a day are here in this university.”

“Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted.”

“The guerrilla fighter needs full help from the people of the area. This is an indispensable condition.”

“Until always, little children. I still hope to see you again. A really big kiss and a hug from Papa.”

“These battles shall not be mere street fights with stones against tear-gas bombs, or of pacific general strikes; neither shall it be the battle of a furious people destroying in two or three days the repressive scaffolds of the ruling oligarchies; the struggle shall be long, harsh, and its front shall be in the guerrilla's refuge, in the cities, in the homes of the fighters — where the repressive forces shall go seeking easy victims among their families — in the massacred rural population, in the villages or cities destroyed by the bombardments of the enemy.”

“In capitalist society individuals are controlled by a pitiless law usually beyond their comprehension. The alienated human specimen is tied to society as a whole by an invisible umbilical cord: the law of value. This law acts upon all aspects of one's life, shaping its course and destiny.”

“The world is hungry but lacks the money to buy food; and paradoxically, in the underdeveloped world, in the world of the hungry, possible ways of expanding food production are discouraged in order to keep prices up, in order to be able to eat. This is the inexorable law of the philosophy of plunder, which must cease to be the rule in relations between peoples.”

“I have lived magnificent days.”

“While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America.”

“As Marxists we have maintained that peaceful coexistence among nations does not encompass coexistence between the exploiters and the exploited, between the oppressors and the oppressed.”

“This professor standing before you was once a doctor, and by force of circumstance was obliged to take up arms, and after two years graduated as a guerrilla commander.”

“It is absolutely just to avoid all useless sacrifices. Therefore, it is so important to clear up the real possibilities that dependent America may have of liberating itself through pacific means. For us, the solution to this question is quite clear: the present moment may or may not be the proper one for starting the struggle, but we cannot harbor any illusions, and we have no right to do so, that freedom can be obtained without fighting.”

“The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.”

“I began the ups and downs of my career as a university student, a member of the middle class, a doctor who shared the same horizons, the same youthful aspirations you have. In the course of the struggle, however, I changed and became convinced of the imperative need for revolution, and of the great justice of the people's cause.”

“We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism — and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capitals, raw materials, technicians and cheap labor, and to which they export new capitals — instruments of domination — arms and all kinds of articles; thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.”

“There is a sad reality: Vietnam — a nation representing the aspirations, the hopes of a whole world of forgotten peoples — is tragically alone. This nation must endure the furious attacks of U. S. technology, with practically no possibility of reprisals in the South and only some of defense in the North — but always alone.”

“North American banks and capitalists soon controlled the commercial exploitation of sugar and, furthermore, a good share of the industrial output of the land. In this way, a monopolistic control was established by U. S. interests in all aspects of a sugar production, which soon became the predominant factor in our foreign trade due to the rapidly developing monoproductive characteristics of the country.”

“The situation was uncomfortable for the people and for [Eutimio], so I ended the problem giving him a shot with a.32 pistol in the right side of the brain, with exit orifice in the right temporal [lobe]. He gasped for a little while and was dead. Upon proceeding to remove his belongings I couldn't get off the watch tied by a chain to his belt, and then he told me in a steady voice farther away than fear: "Yank it off, boy, what does it matter."”

“The United States hastens the delivery of arms to the puppet governments they see as being increasingly threatened; it makes them sign pacts of dependence to legally facilitate the shipment of instruments of repression and death and of troops to use them.”

“The task of educating and feeding youngsters, the task of educating the army, the task of distributing the lands of the former absentee landlords to those who laboured every day upon that same land without receiving its benefits, are accomplishments of social medicine.”

“If, on the other hand, the groups of underdeveloped countries, lured by the siren song of the vested interests of the developed powers which exploit their backwardness, contend futilely among themselves for the crumbs from the tables of the world's mighty, and break the ranks of numerically superior forces … our efforts will have been to no avail.”

“Until victory always”

“It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies. ”