Quotes By Jose Marti

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.