Quotes By Jose Marti

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.