#revolution

“这是不对的，因为天不止一个井大。如果它说：”

“Children are the masters of the new society . Decree Regarding Marriage”

“Divide our forces to arouse the masses, concentrate our forces to deal with the enemy.”

“A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire”

“这就是说，现在虽只有一点小小的力量，但是它的发展会是很快的。它在中国的环境里不仅是具备了发展的可能性，简直是具备了发展的必然性，这在五卅运动及其以后的大革命运动已经得了充分的证明。我们看事情必须要看它的实质，而把它的现象只看作入门的向导，一进了门就要抓住它的实质，这才是可靠的科学的分析方法。 The subjective forces of the revolution have indeed been greatly weakened since the defeat of the revolution in 1927. The remaining forces are very small and those comrades who judge by appearances alone naturally feel pessimistic. But if we judge by essentials, it is quite another story. Here we can apply the old Chinese saying,”

“China is vague and immense where the nine rivers pour. The horizon is a deep line threading north and south. Blue haze and rain. Hills like a snake or tortoise guard the river. The yellow crane is gone. Where? Now this tower and region are for the wanderer. 1drink wine to the bubbling water”

“茫茫九派流中国，沉沉一线穿南北。烟雨莽苍苍，龟蛇锁大江。黄鹤知何去？剩有游人处。把酒酹滔滔，心潮逐浪高！ Wide, wide flow the nine streams through the land, Dark, dark threads the line from south to north. Blurred in the thick haze of the misty rain Tortoise and Snake hold the great river locked. The yellow crane is gone, who knows whither? Only this tower remains a haunt for visitors. I pledge my wine to the surging torrent, The tide of my heart swells with the waves. Informal Translation”

“I stand alone in cold autumn. The River Xiang goes north around the promontory of Orange Island. I see the thousand mountains gone red and rows of stained forests. The great river is glassy jade swarming with one hundred boats. Eagles flash over clouds and fish float near the clear bottom. In the freezing air a million creatures compete for freedom. In this immensity I ask the huge greenblue earth, who is master of nature? translated by Willis Barnstone”

“独立寒秋，湘江北去，橘子洲头。看万山红遍，层林尽染；漫江碧透，百舸争流。鹰击长空，鱼翔浅底，万类霜天竞自由。怅寥廓，问苍茫大地，谁主沉浮？ Alone I stand in the autumn cold On the tip of Orange Island, Xiang flowing northward; I see a thousand hills crimsoned through By their serried woods deep”

“，真是又敏捷又爽快，洋大人打一个屁都是好的”

“A revolution is not a trail of roses .... A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past . Speech on the second anniversary of the triumph of the revolution”

“The first duty of the revolutionaries is to tell the truth. Fooling the people, promoting illusions, always brings the worst consequences , and I believe that the people should be warned against excessive optimism. How did the Red Army win the war? By telling the truth. How did the dictatorship lose the war? By deceiving the soldiers. Camp Columbia, Havana (Jan. 8th, 1959), Fidel Castro Reader , pp. 133”

“I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers. Resignation announcement”

“The American people, I think, is good people. Yes, they are”

“Men do not shape destiny . Destiny produces the man for the hour. I Won't Be a Dictator”

“I am not a dictator , and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun . I Won't Be a Dictator , interview with Ruth Lloyd (January 1959), printed in The Spokesman”

“Weapons for what? ( ¿Armas, para qué? ) To fight against whom? Against the revolutionary government, that has the support of the whole people? ... Weapons for what? Hiding weapons for what? To blackmail the President of the Republic? To threaten to break the peace here? To create organizations of gangsters ? Is it that we are going to return to gangsterism? Is it that we will return to daily shootouts in the capital? Weapons for what? Speech in Havana”

“The 26th of July Movement is not a tendency within the party, it is the revolutionary apparatus of Chibas's organization, a grass”

“I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self”

“Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel! As quoted in An American Savage (2003) by J. Flash (Jeff Flashinski), p. 144”

“Words that do not match deeds are unimportant. As quoted in Seeds of Revolution: A Collection of Axioms, Passages and Proverbs, Volume 1 (2009) by Iam A. Freeman”

“Silence is argument carried out by other means. As quoted in Secrets to a Richer Life: Illuminating Wisdom from the Human Family on the 12 Ultimate Questions (2005) by Earl Ernest Guile”

“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. Intercontinental Press (Vol. 3 January”

“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. It exists when people liberate themselves. Statement in Mexico (1958); as quoted in Kaplan AP World History 2005 (2004) edited by the Kaplan staff, p. 240”

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. As quoted in Wise Guys : Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men (2005) by Allan Zullo, p. 36”

“Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface. As quoted in Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (2010) by John Lee Anderson, p. 178”

“In order to know about the illnesses of society , you have to know what men are suffering from, how they suffer. As quoted in Testimonies About Che (2006) by Marta Rojas, p. 85”

“I don't think you and I are very closely related, however, if you are capable of trembling with indignation each time that an injustice is committed anywhere in the world, we are comrades , and that is more important. Letter to María Rosario Guevara, 20 February 1964. Quoted in Guerrillas in Power: The Course of the Cuban Revolution (1971) by K. S. Karol”

“I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people. As quoted in Becoming Che : Guevara's Second and Final Trip through Latin America (2005) by Carlos "Calica" Ferrer, as translated by Sarah L. Smith (2006), p. 170”