Quotes By Jose Marti

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

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.