{"author":"Ernesto Che Guevara","author_id":"Ernesto+Che+Guevara","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura.[It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness].","author":"Ernesto Che Guevara","tags":["history","historyofpower","inspirational","politics"],"id":21893,"author_id":"Ernesto+Che+Guevara"},{"text":"We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla is a social reformer, who takes up arms responding to the angry protests of the people against their oppressors, and who fights to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and poverty.","author":"Ernesto Che Guevara","tags":["politics","revolution","socialism"],"id":57098,"author_id":"Ernesto+Che+Guevara"},{"text":"All night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us far away, flying in his own aircraft to the stratospheric regions of his own dreams. There we understood that our vocation, our true vocation, was to move for eternity along the roads and seas of the world. Always curious, looking into everything that came before our eyes, sniffing out each corner but only ever faintly--not setting down roots in any land or staying long enough to see the substratum of things the outer limits would suffice.","author":"Ernesto Che Guevara","tags":["bohemian","che-guevara","diaries","diary","exploration","journal","journaling","journals","self-discovery","travel","travel-notes","travel-writing","travelling","vagabonding","wanderlust"],"id":73473,"author_id":"Ernesto+Che+Guevara"},{"text":"Silence is argument carried out by other means.","author":"Ernesto Che Guevara","tags":["inspirational","life","revolutionary"],"id":81790,"author_id":"Ernesto+Che+Guevara"},{"text":"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.","author":"Ernesto Che Guevara","tags":["evolution","marxism","science"],"id":102346,"author_id":"Ernesto+Che+Guevara"},{"text":"His wife spotted the danger in our resolutely bohemian ways.'You have only one year left before you qualify as a doctor and yet you're going away? You have no idea when you'll be back? But why?'We couldn't give precise answers to her desperate questions and this horrified her...","author":"Ernesto Che Guevara","tags":["direction","future","plans"],"id":106842,"author_id":"Ernesto+Che+Guevara"},{"text":"Individuals start to see themselves reflected in their work and to understand their full status as human beings through the object created, through the work accomplished. Work no longer entails surrendering a part of one's being in the form of labor power sold, which no longer belongs to the individual, but becomes an expression of oneself, a contribution to the common life in which one is reflected, the fulfillment of one's social duty.","author":"Ernesto Che Guevara","tags":["politics","revolution","socialism"],"id":179879,"author_id":"Ernesto+Che+Guevara"},{"text":"Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates... Instead, they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service, should learn to think and act as a mass.","author":"Ernesto Che Guevara","tags":["communism","socialism","youth-culture"],"id":204800,"author_id":"Ernesto+Che+Guevara"},{"text":"We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.","author":"Ernesto Che Guevara","tags":["bravery","carpe-diem","commitment","courage","here-and-now","indiviuality","inspirational","passion"],"id":233622,"author_id":"Ernesto+Che+Guevara"},{"text":"I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.","author":"Ernesto Che Guevara","tags":["political"],"id":244667,"author_id":"Ernesto+Che+Guevara"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}