It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
Jose Marti

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
Jose Marti

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

It is the duty of man to raise up man.
Jose Marti

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
Jose Marti

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

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
Jose Marti

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

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

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

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