Quotes By Jose Marti

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

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.

The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

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

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

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

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

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

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.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.