Quotes By Jose Marti

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.

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.

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

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

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.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

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

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.

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

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

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

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

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.

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

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.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

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

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.

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

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

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.