Explore Quotes by Jose Marti

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

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

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.

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.

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

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.

The only way to be totally free is through education.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

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

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.