Che Guevara idézet

Ernesto Guevara [erˈnesto geˈβaɾa] , ismertebb nevén Che Guevara , vagy egyszerűen Che. Orvos, politikus, marxista forradalmár, gerillavezér, kubai miniszter.

Bár Argentínában látta meg a napvilágot, Fidel Castro 1959-ben „született” kubai állampolgárnak nyilvánította. A kubai forradalom egyik legendás vezetője, később a kubai Nemzeti Földreform Intézet, majd a Kubai Nemzeti Bank elnöke, 1961-1965 között ipari miniszter volt. Egy kudarcot vallott kongói kísérlet után Bolíviába próbálta meg a kubai forradalmat „exportálni”, de a hatóságok elfogták és kivégezték.

Korabeli és mai politikai megítélése egyaránt ellentmondásos. Rajongói a humanista forradalmárt látják benne, erkölcsi szigorát, az emberi méltóság és szabadság iránti elkötelezettségét méltatják, baloldali bírálói forrófejű politikai kalandornak, jobboldali ellenfelei hidegvérű tömeggyilkosnak tekintik. Dél-Amerikában sokan egyfajta apokrif szentként tisztelik . Wikipedia  

✵ 14. június 1928 – 9. október 1967   •   Más nevek Эрнесто Че Гевара
Che Guevara fénykép
Che Guevara: 290   idézetek 38   Kedvelés

Che Guevara híres idézetei

„Ha megremegsz a felháborodástól, valahányszor igazságtalanság történik a világban, az elvtársam vagy.”

Vegyes idézetek
Eredeti: The Quotable Rebel : Political Quotations for Dangerous Times (2005) Teishan Latner, 112. oldal

Che Guevara Idézetek az emberekről

„Az embernek keménnyé kell válnia, miközben nem szűnhet meg gyengédnek lenni.”

Vegyes idézetek
Eredeti: Essential Care : An Ethics of Human Nature (2008) Leonardo Boff, 82. oldal

Che Guevara Idézetek a világról

Che Guevara idézetek

„A gerillaharcosnak teljes támogatásra van szüksége a környék lakóitól. Ez elengedhetetlen körülmény.”

1. fejezet: A Gerillaháború általános elvei
Gerillaháború

„Tudom, azért jött, hogy megöljön. Lőjön, csak egy férfit fog megölni.”

Ezek álltólag utolsó szavai voltak kivégzőjéhez, Mario Terán őrmesterhez.
Vegyes idézetek

„Tudtam, hogy akkor, mikor a nagy szellem lesújt, hogy az emberiséget két szembenálló részre osztja, én a közemberek oldalán fogok állni.”

Vegyes idézetek
Eredeti: Becoming Che : Guevara's Second and Final Trip through Latin America (2005)c. könyv; (Carlos "Calica" Ferrer)

„Amikor a törvényes renddel szembenálló erők fenn tudnak maradni, a békének már vége.”

1. fejezet: A Gerillaháború általános elvei
Gerillaháború

„A forradalom nem egy alma, amelyik leesik, ha megérett. Nekünk kell megrázni a fát.”

Vegyes idézetek
Eredeti: Intercontinental Press (3. szám 1962. Január-Április)

„Amikor megkérdezik, hogy marxisták vagyunk-e, az olyan, mintha egy orvost vagy biológust megkérdeznének, hogy „newton-ista”, vagy „pasteour-ista.””

Vannak igazságok, melyek olyan nyilvánvalóak, hogy nem érdemes vitatkozni róluk.
Jegyzetek a Kubai Forradalomról (1960)

„Egy nap tízezer jószágot hoztunk Sierrába, és azt mondtuk a parasztoknak „Egyetek.””

És a parasztok hosszú évek óta először, néhányan életükben először marhahúst ehettek.
Revolutionary Medicine (1960)

Che Guevara: Idézetek angolul

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”

As quoted in Wise Guys : Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men (2005) by Allan Zullo, p. 36

“The government of the United States is not the champion of freedom”

Address to the United Nations (1964)
Kontextus: Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks remain free, protecting them, and furthermore punishing the black population because they demand their legitimate rights as free men — how can those who do this consider themselves guardians of freedom? The government of the United States is not the champion of freedom, but rather the perpetrator of exploitation and oppression against the peoples of the world and against a large part of its own population.

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.”

As quoted in The Quotable Rebel : Political Quotations for Dangerous Times (2005) by Teishan Latner, p. 112
Változat: If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

“Our task is to prevent the present generation, torn asunder by its conflicts, from becoming perverted and from perverting new generations.”

Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Kontextus: Our task is to prevent the present generation, torn asunder by its conflicts, from becoming perverted and from perverting new generations. We must not bring into being either docile servants of official thought or scholarship students who live at the expense of the state — practising "freedom." Already there are revolutionaries coming who will sing the song of the new man in the true voice of the people. This is a process, which takes time.

“I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.”

Változat: I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.

“Now you have the privilege of living in another era and you must be worthy of it.”

Birthday Letter to his Daughter (1966)
Kontextus: You should fight to be among the best in school. The very best in every sense and you already know what that means; study and revolutionary attitude. In other words: good conduct, seriousness, love for the revolution, comradeship. I was not that way at your age but I lived in a different society, where man was an enemy of man. Now you have the privilege of living in another era and you must be worthy of it.

“The Cuban Revolution takes up Marx at the point where he himself left science to shoulder his revolutionary rifle.”

Notes on the Cuban Revolution (1960)
Kontextus: The Cuban Revolution takes up Marx at the point where he himself left science to shoulder his revolutionary rifle. And it takes him up at that point, not in a revisionist spirit, of struggling against that which follows Marx, of reviving "pure" Marx, but simply because up to that point Marx, the scientist, placed himself outside of the history he studied and predicted. From then on Marx, the revolutionary, could fight within history.

“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.”

Intercontinental Press (Vol. 3 January-April 1965); also, in Che Guevara speaks: Selected Speeches and Writings (1967)

“The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought.”

Notes on the Cuban Revolution (1960)
Kontextus: The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.

“Socialism cannot exist without a change in consciousness resulting in a new fraternal attitude toward humanity”

Afro-Asian Conference (1965)
Kontextus: Socialism cannot exist without a change in consciousness resulting in a new fraternal attitude toward humanity, both at an individual level, within the societies where socialism is being built or has been built, and on a world scale, with regard to all peoples suffering from imperialist oppression.

“Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, may have reached some receptive ear”

Message to the Tricontinental (1967)
Kontextus: Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, may have reached some receptive ear and another hand may be extended to wield our weapons and other men be ready to intone the funeral dirge with the staccato singing of the machine-guns and new battle cries of war and victory.

“Now is the time to throw off the yoke, to force renegotiation of oppressive foreign debts”

Afro-Asian Conference (1965)
Kontextus: Now is the time to throw off the yoke, to force renegotiation of oppressive foreign debts, and to force the imperialists to abandon their bases of aggression.

“We socialists are freer because we are more fulfilled; we are more fulfilled because we are freer.”

Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Kontextus: We socialists are freer because we are more fulfilled; we are more fulfilled because we are freer. The skeleton of our complete freedom is already formed. The flesh and the clothing are lacking; we will create them.

“The laws of capitalism, blind and invisible to the majority, act upon the individual without his thinking about it.”

Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Kontextus: The laws of capitalism, blind and invisible to the majority, act upon the individual without his thinking about it. He sees only the vastness of a seemingly infinite horizon before him. That is how it is painted by capitalist propagandists, who purport to draw a lesson from the example of Rockefeller — whether or not it is true — about the possibilities of success.
The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude entails, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this.

“While a person dies every day during the eight or more hours in which he or she functions as a commodity, individuals come to life afterward in their spiritual creations.”

Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Kontextus: While a person dies every day during the eight or more hours in which he or she functions as a commodity, individuals come to life afterward in their spiritual creations. But this remedy bears the germs of the same sickness: that of a solitary being seeking harmony with the world.

“If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life.”

As quoted in The Many Faces of Socialism Comparative Sociology and Politics (1983) by Paul Hollander, p. 224,
Kontextus: I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from people's psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life.

“After graduation, due to special circumstances and perhaps also to my character, I began to travel throughout America, and I became acquainted with all of it.”

On Revolutionary Medicine (1960)
Kontextus: After graduation, due to special circumstances and perhaps also to my character, I began to travel throughout America, and I became acquainted with all of it. Except for Haiti and Santo Domingo, I have visited, to some extent, all the other Latin American countries. Because of the circumstances in which I traveled, first as a student and later as a doctor, I came into close contact with poverty, hunger and disease; with the inability to treat a child because of lack of money; with the stupefaction provoked by the continual hunger and punishment, to the point that a father can accept the loss of a son as an unimportant accident, as occurs often in the downtrodden classes of our American homeland. And I began to realize at that time that there were things that were almost as important to me as becoming famous for making a significant contribution to medical science: I wanted to help those people.

“Cuba was developed as a sugar factory of the United States”

The Cuban Economy (1964)
Kontextus: The natural advantages of the cultivation of sugar in Cuba are obvious, but the predominant fact is that Cuba was developed as a sugar factory of the United States.