We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
Jose MartiRead
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
Interpretation
Liberty includes the ability to express one's true thoughts and feelings honestly.
This quote by Jose Marti emphasizes the fundamental aspect of liberty as the freedom to be genuine in one's thoughts, words, and actions. It advocates for honesty and integrity in communication, arguing that true freedom allows individuals to express themselves without deceit or pretense.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of honesty in leadership.
We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
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.
It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings] when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order.
Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.
Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to 'methodological collectivism'; it rightly insists that the 'behaviour' and the 'actions' of collectives, such as states or social groups, must be reduced to the behaviour and to the actions of human individuals. But the belief that the choice of such an individualist method implies the choice of a psychological method is mistaken.
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope. What good did I get from it? I got to have love in my heart.
I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.
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