“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.”
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
“Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?”
“Let the world change you and you can change the world”
“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.”
“Be realistic, demand the impossible!”
“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.”
“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”
“I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”
“And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.”
“The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.”
“HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE”
“I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.”
“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.”
“I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.”
“There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.”
“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.”
“I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.”
“Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.”
“The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.”
“The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.”
“El revolucionario vedadero es guiado por gran sentimientos de amor.”
“The best form of saying is being”
“The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day”
“What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.”
“The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.”
“A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.”
“The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.”
“One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.”
“I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.”
“Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another...”
“I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.”
“Hay que endurecerse, pero sin perder la ternura jamás!”
“...I also know - and this won't alter the course of history or your personal view of me - that you will die with a clenched fist and a tense jaw, the epitome of hatred and struggle, because you are not a symbol (some inanimate example) but a genuine member of the society to be destroyed; the spirit of the beehive speaks through your mouth and motivates your actions. You are as useful as I am, but you are not aware of how useful your contribution is to the society that sacrifices you.”
“Dejeme decirie,
a risego de parecer ridiculo,
que el revolucionario verdadero
esta guiado por grandes sentimientos de amor.
Let me say,
at the risk of seeming ridiculous,
that the true revolutionary
is guided by great feelings of love.”
“I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know this, I see it printed in the night sky that I, eclectic dissembler of doctrine and psychoanalyst of dogma, howling like one possessed, will assault the barricades or the trenches , will take my bloodstained weapon, and consumed with fury, slaughter any enemy who falls into my hands.”
“Todos los días la gente se arregla el cabello, ¿por qué no el corazón?”
“I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...”
― Ernesto Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
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“Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that ancient melancholy of smoke, unifying everything with its grayish monotones, a perfect coupling with the gray mountain days.”
“Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser.”
“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.”
“The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound down by their practical world view, are able to place those members of the disintegrating tribes they may have seen in their travels among these once-living walls, unaware of the moral distance separating them, since only the semi-indigenous spirit of the South American can grasp the subtle differences.”
“The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It was - I don't know how to explain it - as if everything solid melted away into the ether, eliminating all individualtiy and absorbing us, rigid, into the immense darkness. Not a single cloud to lend perspective to the space blocked any portion of the starry sky.”
“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.”
“Hay que luchar por cada bocanada de aire y enviar la muerte al carajo.”
“Jika hati anda bergetar melihat penindasan maka lawanlah sebab diam adalah bentuk penghianatan”
“When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he is a “Newtonian” or of a biologist when asked if he is a “Pasteurian.”
There are truths so evident, so much a part of the peoples’ knowledge, that it is now useless to debate them. One should be a “Marxist” with the same naturalness with which one is a “Newtonian” in physics or a “Pasteurian.” If new facts bring about new concepts, the latter will never take away that portion of truth possessed by those that have come before.
Such is the case, for example, of “Einsteinian” relativity or of Planck’s quantum theory in relation to Newton’s discoveries. They take absolutely nothing away from the greatness of the learned Englishman. Thanks to Newton, physics was able to advance until it achieved new concepts of space. The learned Englishman was the necessary stepping-stone for that.
Obviously, one can point to certain mistakes of Marx, as a thinker and as an investigator of the social doctrines and of the capitalist system in which he lived. We Latin Americans, for example, cannot agree with his interpretation of Bolivar, or with his and Engels’ analysis of the Mexicans, which accepted as fact certain theories of race or nationality that are unacceptable today.
But the great men who discover brilliant truths live on despite their small faults and these faults serve only to show us they were human. That is to say, they were human beings who could make mistakes, even given the high level of consciousness achieved by these giants of human thought.
This is why we recognize the essential truths of Marxism as part of humanity’s body of cultural and scientific knowledge. We accept it with the naturalness of something that requires no further argument.”
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
“Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?”
“Let the world change you and you can change the world”
“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.”
“Be realistic, demand the impossible!”
“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.”
“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”
“I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”
“And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.”
“The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.”
“HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE”
“I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.”
“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.”
“I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.”
“There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.”
“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.”
“I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.”
“Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.”
“The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.”
“The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.”
“El revolucionario vedadero es guiado por gran sentimientos de amor.”
“The best form of saying is being”
“The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day”
“What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.”
“The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.”
“A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.”
“The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.”
“One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.”
“I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.”
“Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another...”
“I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.”
“Hay que endurecerse, pero sin perder la ternura jamás!”
“...I also know - and this won't alter the course of history or your personal view of me - that you will die with a clenched fist and a tense jaw, the epitome of hatred and struggle, because you are not a symbol (some inanimate example) but a genuine member of the society to be destroyed; the spirit of the beehive speaks through your mouth and motivates your actions. You are as useful as I am, but you are not aware of how useful your contribution is to the society that sacrifices you.”
“Dejeme decirie,
a risego de parecer ridiculo,
que el revolucionario verdadero
esta guiado por grandes sentimientos de amor.
Let me say,
at the risk of seeming ridiculous,
that the true revolutionary
is guided by great feelings of love.”
“I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know this, I see it printed in the night sky that I, eclectic dissembler of doctrine and psychoanalyst of dogma, howling like one possessed, will assault the barricades or the trenches , will take my bloodstained weapon, and consumed with fury, slaughter any enemy who falls into my hands.”
“Todos los días la gente se arregla el cabello, ¿por qué no el corazón?”
“I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...”
― Ernesto Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
tags: che, destiny, diaries, exploration, explore, fate, go-travel, international-authors, journal, journals, journies, latin-american-authors, life, life-philosophy, see-the-world, self-discovery, south-america, south-american-authors, the-motorcycle-diaries, travel, travel-memoirs, travel-notes, travel-writing, travelling, vagabonding
“Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that ancient melancholy of smoke, unifying everything with its grayish monotones, a perfect coupling with the gray mountain days.”
“Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser.”
“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.”
“The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound down by their practical world view, are able to place those members of the disintegrating tribes they may have seen in their travels among these once-living walls, unaware of the moral distance separating them, since only the semi-indigenous spirit of the South American can grasp the subtle differences.”
“The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It was - I don't know how to explain it - as if everything solid melted away into the ether, eliminating all individualtiy and absorbing us, rigid, into the immense darkness. Not a single cloud to lend perspective to the space blocked any portion of the starry sky.”
“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.”
“Hay que luchar por cada bocanada de aire y enviar la muerte al carajo.”
“Jika hati anda bergetar melihat penindasan maka lawanlah sebab diam adalah bentuk penghianatan”
“When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he is a “Newtonian” or of a biologist when asked if he is a “Pasteurian.”
There are truths so evident, so much a part of the peoples’ knowledge, that it is now useless to debate them. One should be a “Marxist” with the same naturalness with which one is a “Newtonian” in physics or a “Pasteurian.” If new facts bring about new concepts, the latter will never take away that portion of truth possessed by those that have come before.
Such is the case, for example, of “Einsteinian” relativity or of Planck’s quantum theory in relation to Newton’s discoveries. They take absolutely nothing away from the greatness of the learned Englishman. Thanks to Newton, physics was able to advance until it achieved new concepts of space. The learned Englishman was the necessary stepping-stone for that.
Obviously, one can point to certain mistakes of Marx, as a thinker and as an investigator of the social doctrines and of the capitalist system in which he lived. We Latin Americans, for example, cannot agree with his interpretation of Bolivar, or with his and Engels’ analysis of the Mexicans, which accepted as fact certain theories of race or nationality that are unacceptable today.
But the great men who discover brilliant truths live on despite their small faults and these faults serve only to show us they were human. That is to say, they were human beings who could make mistakes, even given the high level of consciousness achieved by these giants of human thought.
This is why we recognize the essential truths of Marxism as part of humanity’s body of cultural and scientific knowledge. We accept it with the naturalness of something that requires no further argument.”
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