We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.
I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.
The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation.
I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.
Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.
Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another...
I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.
When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.
The best form of saying is being.
Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him.
The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed sediment of a muddy lake when you touch its bottom.
How can it be “mutually beneficial” to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering.
There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country’s defeat is a defeat for all of us.
The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.
You know, comrade Pachman, I don’t enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.
Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.
Perhaps one day tired of circling the world I’ll return to Argentina and settle in the Andean lakes if not indefinitely then at least for a pause while I shift from one understanding of the world to another.