Jose Marti Quotes

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

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.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

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

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

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

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

Oh, what company good poets are!

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.

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

I have lived in the monster and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David.

Literature is the most beautiful of countries

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.

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

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

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

The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least.

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

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

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

We are free, but no to be evil

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

The spirit of a government must be that of the country. The form of a government must come from the makeup of the country. Government is nothing but the balance of the natural elements of a country.

America is a land of creators and rebels.

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

A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself.

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

Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.

To beautify life is to give it an object.

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

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