Che

Michael Hoover hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us
Mon Oct 18 17:07:31 PDT 1999



> A friend of mine is assembling quotes from people whose images were
> later used in advertising or other commercial applications. Any
> idea(s) for a good quote from Che, whom Swatch made into a watch?
> Doug

He's pretty quotable, here's a few...

I'm not looking to make money for your wealthy capitalists (in refusing rich investment partners as small business he owned was going bankrupt in 1950)

The best way of telling is doing (he's actually quoting Marti here)

When someone calls himself a revolutionary and does not act like one, he can be nothing more than heretical

The North Americans were interested in keeping us in the state in which we found ourselves

A socialist society is absolutely democratic

We cannot stop exporting an example, as the United States wishes, because an example is something intangible that transcends borders

The proletariat has no sex: It is all men and women taken together

If there are guerrillas in Latin America - and both we and the Pentagon know there are - they were in no way created by us.

The concept of a socialist revolution precedes the concept of a socialist state

A guerrilla war is a people's war

Violence is not the exclusive property of the exploiters

The guerrilla force is not a form of passive self-defense

Let me say, with the risk of appearing ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by strong feelings of love (my favorite)

Create two, three...many Vietnams (not exactly how he phrased it but became popular version)

Michael Hoover



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