Jose Marti quotes

Jose Marti

"Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness."
Jose Marti
Men Action Greatness Dignity
"Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy."
Jose Marti
Man Speak Liberty Think
"Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making."
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World Gift Talent Serve
"Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever."
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Love Men Action Live
"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."
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Work People Political Evil
"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."
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Life Future Trust Vote
"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."
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Life Bird Liberty Body
"Charm is a product of the unexpected."
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Unexpected Product Charm
"One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army."
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Army More Cave Just
"Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive."
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Light Stars Men Like
"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 Sun Will Greed
"Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity."
Jose Marti
Death Fire Who Hatred
"A grain of poetry suffices to season a century."
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Poetry Grain Season Century
"To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft."
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Our Theft Exclusive Benefit
"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."
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Stop Impossible Obstacles Ideas
"A selfish man is a thief."
Jose Marti
Man Selfish Thief
"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."
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You Freedom Speak Liberty
"Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all."
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You Together Achieve Like
"We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it."
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Light Bread Everyone May
"It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you."
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You Speak Liberty Who
"It is necessary to make virtue fashionable."
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Virtue Make Necessary Fashionable
"A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots."
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Man Roots Go More
"The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest."
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Passion Interest Force Balanced
"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."
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Trust Money Who Thief
"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."
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Culture Humanity Talent Country
"It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing."
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Sin Doing Capable
"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."
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Beautiful God Man Marble
"There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so."
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Happiness Duty May Seem Although
"One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve."
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Guilty Help Relieve Does
"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."
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Man Liberty Know He
"Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas."
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Ideas Go Bed Others
"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."
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Love Nature Women Grace
"To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly."
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Life Life Is A Right Only
"Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice."
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Voice Liberty Enemies Judge
"In truth, men speak too much of danger."
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Truth Men Speak Too Much
"The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women."
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Women Support Only Weak
"Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men."
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Men Mountains Peaks Nations
"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."
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Simple Busy Talent Difficult
"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."
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Work Time Men Honesty
"An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life."
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Life Death Sacrifice Glory
"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."
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Life Will Bread Door
"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."
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Life Great Power Risks
"He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter."
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Who He Torch Being
"He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief."
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Who Thief He Against
"Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men."
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Character Men Equilibrium Sane
"Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love."
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Love Hate More Than
"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."
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Work Man Think Road
"It is the duty of man to raise up man."
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Man Duty Up Raise
"Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing."
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Man Duty Must Leave

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