Jose Marti Quotes

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

Love, Nature, Women

A selfish man is a thief.
Jose Marti

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

Happiness, Knowledge, Through

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
Jose Marti

Liberty, Honest, Speak

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

Trust, Money, Against

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

Goes, Genuine, Roots

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

Men, Others, Light

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

May, Down, Impossible

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

Life, Death, Sacrifice

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

Against, Office, Thief

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

Love, Single, Greed

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Jose Marti

Men, Famous, Talk

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

May, Light, Everyone

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

Work, Evil, Political

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

Life, Trust, Future

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

Work, Time, Men

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
Jose Marti

Judge, Liberty, Voice

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

Making, Talent, Gift

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

Humanity, Country, Place

Charm is a product of the unexpected.
Jose Marti

Unexpected, Charm, Product

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

Life, Give, Whole

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

Women, Support, Weak

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

Benefit, Theft, Exclusive

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

Work, Him, Living

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

Simple, Busy, Difficult

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Biography

Nationality: Cuban

Born: January 28, 1853

Died: May 19, 1895

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