Explore Quotes by Jose Marti

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

He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

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

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.

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

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 grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

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.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

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.

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

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.

To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.

The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.

Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

Charm is a product of the unexpected.