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Jose Marti Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the cuban activist Jose Marti on topics like liberty, life, love

  • 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.

    — Jose Marti on happiness
    14
  • Charm is a product of the unexpected.

    — Jose Marti on charisma
    7
  • Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

    — Jose Marti on honest
    4
  • A selfish man is a thief.

    — Jose Marti on fish
    4
  • Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

    — Jose Marti on brings
    3
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  • It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

    — Jose Marti on capable
    2
  • 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.

    — Jose Marti on administer
    2
  • The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

    — Jose Marti on balanced
    2
  • But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything.

    what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

    — Jose Marti on afire
    1
  • 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.

    — Jose Marti on bread
    1
  • A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

    — Jose Marti on poetry
    1
  • A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

    — Jose Marti on genuine
    1
  • About Jose Marti

    Name Jose Marti
    Quotes 50 quotations
    Nationality Cuban
    Profession Activist
    Birthday January 28, 1853
    About José Julián Martí Pérez is a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature.
    Top topics liberty, life, love, speak, thief
  • He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.

    — Jose Marti on depth
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  • It is the duty of man to raise up man.

    — Jose Marti on duty
    1
  • To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

    — Jose Marti on life
    0
  • 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.

    — Jose Marti on child
    0
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  • 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.

    — Jose Marti on driven
    0
  • He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

    — Jose Marti on jaws
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  • 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.

    — Jose Marti on child
    0
  • 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.

    — Jose Marti on dressing
    0
  • Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate.

    Action is the dignity of greatness.

    — Jose Marti on action
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  • Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

    — Jose Marti on death
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  • 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.

    — Jose Marti on apollo
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  • Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

    — Jose Marti on brute
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  • Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.

    — Jose Marti on action
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  • 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.

    — Jose Marti on birthright
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  • The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.

    — Jose Marti on hearts
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  • To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.

    — Jose Marti on benefit
    0
  • One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

    — Jose Marti on army
    0
  • Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

    — Jose Marti on achieve
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  • An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

    — Jose Marti on appetite
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  • We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

    — Jose Marti on inspirational
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  • 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.

    — Jose Marti on admirable
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  • One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

    — Jose Marti on guilty
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  • 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.

    — Jose Marti on applause
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  • He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

    — Jose Marti on office
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  • There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

    — Jose Marti on happiness
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  • Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

    — Jose Marti on bond
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  • 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.

    — Jose Marti on attempt
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  • Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.

    — Jose Marti on hate
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  • It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

    — Jose Marti on liberty
    0
  • In truth, men speak too much of danger.

    — Jose Marti on danger
    0
  • Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it.

    Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.

    — Jose Marti on exile
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  • 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.

    — Jose Marti on barriers
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  • 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.

    — Jose Marti on delicate
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  • Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.

    — Jose Marti on character
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  • 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.

    — Jose Marti on air
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  • We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

    — Jose Marti on association
    0
  • Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

    — Jose Marti on judge
    0
  • It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

    — Jose Marti on fashionable
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  • Related Topics

    • happiness
    • constant
    • earth
    • exercise
    • exists
    • generosity
    • harmony
    • knowledge
    • practice
    • prudent
    • reason
    • universe
    • won
    • charisma
    • charm
    • product
    • unexpected
    • honest
    • hypocrisy
    • liberty
    • speak
    • man
    • fish
    • selfish
    • thief
    • brings
    • gift
    • making
    • obligation
    • serve
    • talent
    • world
    • capable
    • sin
    • administer

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