25 Subcomandante Marcos Quotes From the Mexican Insurgent

Check out these Subcomandante Marcos quotes from the former Mexican military leader.

Subcomandante Marcos is the pseudonym of Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente, born in Tampico, Mexico, in 1957.

Marcos is a well-known Mexican insurgent and is the spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) relating to the ongoing Chiapas conflict.

He is a former military leader who became heavily involved with the National Liberation Forces while he was teaching at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in the 1980s.

He is a prominent opponent of capitalism and moved to Chiapas in 1984 to help protect the Mayan people.

Marcos is not Mayan but has become the leader of EZLN to protect the Mayan people and their land.

Take a look at these Subcomandante Marcos quotes to learn more about the passionate leader.

Thought-Provoking Subcomandante Marcos Quotes

As you read these quotes from the former military leader, allow yourself to ponder them.

1. “You tell the story like it is.” — Subcomandante Marcos

2. “All cultures forged by nations.” — Subcomandante Marcos

3. “We are nothing if we walk alone.” — Subcomandante Marcos

4. “Below and to the left is the heart!” — Subcomandante Marcos

5. “Who should ask for pardon, and who can grant it?” — Subcomandante Marcos

6. “Take care and do not forget ideas are also weapons.” — Subcomandante Marcos

7. “Some wounds just don’t heal even if you talk them out.” — Subcomandante Marcos

8. “What are we to be pardoned for? For not dying of hunger?” — Subcomandante Marcos

9. “We came to know each other in war, and in war we continue.” — Subcomandante Marcos

10. “Our fight is for life, and the bad government offers death as a future.” — Subcomandante Marcos

Classic Subcomandante Marcos Quotes

Check out these iconic and well-known quotes from Subcomandante Marcos.

11. “We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.” — Subcomandante Marcos

12. “We are an army of dreamers, and that’s why we’re invincible.” — Subcomandante Marcos

13. “Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment.” — Subcomandante Marcos

14. “Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without.” — Subcomandante Marcos

15. “With flags and different languages, the foreigner came to conquer us. He came, and he went.” — Subcomandante Marcos

16. “We were born between blood and gunpowder, and between blood and gunpowder we were raised.” — Subcomandante Marcos

17. “In our dreams, we have seen another world, an honest world, a world decidedly more fair than the one in which we now live.” — Subcomandante Marcos

More Subcomandante Marcos Quotes

Here are some more quotes from the Mexican spokesman.

18. “The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow.” — Subcomandante Marcos

19. “Our fight is for hunger, and the bad government gives away lead and paper to the stomachs of our children.” — Subcomandante Marcos

20. “Our struggle is to make ourselves listen, and the bad government shouts arrogance and covers its ears with cannons.” — Subcomandante Marcos

21. “In the end, the women can be very rebellious, and very capable and all of that, but if she depends on a man economically, she has few possibilities.” — Subcomandante Marcos

22. “In addition to being extremely expensive, and we have to put up with the stupidities that the candidates repeat, it’s really being decided elsewhere who will sit in the presidential seat.” — Subcomandante Marcos

23. “We saw that in this world there was no need for armies; peace, justice, and liberty were so common that no one talked about them as far-off concepts, but as things such as bread, birds, air, water.”  — Subcomandante Marcos

24. “The word of the oldest of the old of our peoples didn’t stop. It spoke the truth, saying that our feet couldn’t walk alone, that our history of pain and shame was repeated and multiplied in the flesh and blood.” — Subcomandante Marcos

25. “Love is like a teacup that every day falls to the ground and breaks to pieces. In the morning, the pieces are gathered, and with a little moisture and a little warmth, the pieces are glued together, and again, there is a little teacup.” — Subcomandante Marcos

Why is Subcomandante Marcos Famous?

He is a passionate man who has led the uprising against the Mexican government concerning the rights of the Mayan people.

Marcos is charismatic and is known for wearing a ski mask and for his pipe that he is often seen with.

He is a talented writer and leader who has been able to get his message out to those who oppose or are for him.

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