Words matter. These are the best Jose Marti Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.
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.
There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
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.
To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.
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.
Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel’s work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.
Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
To give one’s life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.
Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.
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.
Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
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 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.
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
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.
Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
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.
Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.