Quotes from Jose Marti

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

A selfish man 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.

Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.

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.

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

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

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

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

Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those who obey the law of work.

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.

This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.

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.

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

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.

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

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.

The only way to be totally free is through education.

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

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.