Quote

As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.

Che Guevara

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Che Guevara
Age: 39 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 14
Died: 1967
Died: October 9
Biographer
Diplomat
Essayist
Military Personnel
Opinion Journalist
Partisan
Photographer
Physician
Poet
Politician
Revolutionary
Rosario de Santa Fe
Ernesto Guevara
El Che
Che
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna
Long
Domination
Definition
Definitions
Exists
Countries
Called
Today
Exert
Country
Imperialism

More quotes by Che Guevara

Image
The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.
Che Guevara
Image
I do not imply that in the U.S plants, industrial plants, are places of exploitation where man is oppressed. 1 know that there are a great number of advantages here for too American worker.
Che Guevara
Image
Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.
Che Guevara
Image
Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.
Che Guevara
Image
A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.
Che Guevara
Image
Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.
Che Guevara
Image
I understand that the American people has a right and especially the press, which is not very friendly to us, to make all suppositions and ideas about this fact [suicide by Augusto Martinez] - this disgraced fact.
Che Guevara
Image
Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible.
Che Guevara
Image
We put no condition of any kind to the U.S., we don't want it to change its system, we don't want racial discrimination to cease in the U.S., we put no conditions to the establishment of relations.
Che Guevara
Image
To accomplish much you must first lose everything.
Che Guevara
Image
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.
Che Guevara
Image
Direct aggression against Cuba would mean nuclear war. The Americans speak about such aggression as if they did not know or did not want to accept this fact. I have no doubt they would lose such a war.
Che Guevara
Image
It's not my fault if reality is Marxist
Che Guevara
Image
If they attack, we shall fight to the end. If the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York, in our defense against aggression. But we haven't got them, so we shall fight with what we've got.
Che Guevara
Image
The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, one notes a decline in collective enthusiasm due to the effect of a quantitative diminution in each of the elements that make up the mass. Work is paralyzed until it is reduced to an insignificant level. It is time to make a correction.
Che Guevara
Image
It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.
Che Guevara
Image
We have taken plants from the capitalist system where the most important thing was to produce, especially in Cuba.
Che Guevara
Image
What we consider is that the Venezuelan government is not a leftist government, has nothing of a leftist government. It is an oppressor, an oppressive government, it is a murderer - he murders them - the peasant fights in the region of Falcon, for example, where there are military advisers of the U.S.
Che Guevara
Image
One must endure without losing tenderness.
Che Guevara
Image
Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.
Che Guevara