Che Guevara on democracy
Che Guevara50 quotes“Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.”
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You can live by your own rules.
Che GuevaraChe Guevara I don’t care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
Che GuevaraChe Guevara Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.
Che GuevaraChe Guevara The only passion that guides me is for the truth. I look at everything from this point of view.
Che GuevaraChe Guevara Be realistic, demand the impossible!
Che GuevaraChe Guevara Live your life not celebrating victories but overcoming defeats.
Che GuevaraChe Guevara Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.
Che GuevaraChe Guevara The best form of saying is doing.
Che GuevaraChe Guevara I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world’s problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.
Che GuevaraChe Guevara We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
Che GuevaraChe Guevara The best form of saying is being.
Che GuevaraChe Guevara Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.
Che GuevaraChe Guevara I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.
Che GuevaraChe Guevara The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
Che GuevaraChe Guevara One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.
Che GuevaraChe Guevara To accomplish much you must first lose everything.
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