Quotes By Jose Marti

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

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.

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

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.

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

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.

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

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

He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

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.