10 quotes from Saint Che'

“What we affirm is that we must proceed along the path of liberation even if this costs millions of atomic victims.”

“To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary … These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution!”

“We must eliminate all newspapers; we cannot make a revolution with free press.”

“We executed many people by firing squad without knowing if they were fully guilty. At times, the Revolution cannot stop to conduct much investigation.”

“The black is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.” 1952 Diary

“Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy.”

“I ended the problem with a .32 caliber pistol, in the right side of his brain. . . . His belongings were now mine.”

“Our technical comrades at the companies have made a toothpaste … which is as good as the previous one; it cleans just the same, though after a while it turns to stone.”

“My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood.” “I’d like to confess, Papa, at that moment I discovered that I really like killing.”

“It’s a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.”

From: 10 of the Most Psychotic Quotes from Socialist Hero Che Guevara