Quotes By Jose Marti

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.