Jose Marti Quotes - Page 3

The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.

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

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

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop

Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

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

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.

Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an isolated system of doctrines and whisper in their ear (instead of the sweet message of love) the barbarous gospel of hate.

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

America is a land of creators and rebels.

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

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

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.

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

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

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.

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

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

The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves; it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom; the country that wants to die sells only to one country , and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one.

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

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

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

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.