Quotes on Noli Me Tangere

To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.

The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.

Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.

Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.

I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.

The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.

Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.

No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being.

For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

The people do not complain because they have no voice; do not move because they are lethargic, and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen their hearts bleed.