Quotes By Jose Marti

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.

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

A selfish man is a thief.

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.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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, 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.

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

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.

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.