Jose Marti Quotes
To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.
Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
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.
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
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.
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.
Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.
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.
My poems please the brave: My poems, short and sincere, Have the force of steel Which forges swords.
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.
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.
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.
A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.
All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.
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.
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water.
