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.

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.

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.