Jose Marti Quotes

Quotes about:

• People can only be free if they are truly educated.

  Jose Marti

  People, Educated, Ifs

  138 Copy quote

• To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.

  Jose Marti

  Journey, Men, Keys

  151 Copy quote

• Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand.

  Jose Marti

  Confused, Reading, Order

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

  158 Copy quote

• In a time of crisis, the peoples of the world must rush to get to know each other.

  Jose Marti

  World, Times Of Crisis, Crisis

  89 Copy quote

• Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Humanity, Together

  126 Copy quote

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

  Jose Marti

  Fake People, Men, Thinking

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

  136 Copy quote

• It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.

  Jose Marti

  Fall, West Indies, Land

  86 Copy quote

• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Exercise

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

  101 Copy quote

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

  Jose Marti

  Stars, Men, Light

  98 Copy quote

• To change masters is not to be free.

  Jose Marti

  Freedom, Liberty, Politics

  103 Copy quote

• The first duty of a man is to think for himself

  Jose Marti

  Life, Hope, Philosophy

  72 Copy quote

• Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.

  Jose Marti

  Taken, Rights

  "Inside the Monster : Writings on the United States and American Imperialism" by José Martí, translated by Elinor Randall, (p. 27), 1975.

  76 Copy quote

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

  Jose Marti

  Inspirational, Greatness, Men

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

  120 Copy quote

• Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

  Jose Marti

  Book, Calm, Console

  15 Copy quote

• One revolution is still necessary: the one that will not end with the rule of its leader. It will be the revolution against revolutions, the uprising of all peaceable individuals, who will become soldiers for once so that neither they nor anyone else will ever have to be a soldier again.

  Jose Marti

  Uprising, Leader, Soldier

  64 Copy quote

• 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

  People, Evil, Political

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

  101 Copy quote

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

  Jose Marti

  Love, Life, Men

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

  64 Copy quote

• 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, Liberty, Doe

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

  12 Copy quote

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

  Jose Marti

  Sins Not, Sin, Capable

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

  12 Copy quote

• Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love)

  Jose Marti

  Love Is, Amor, Sane

  77 Copy quote

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

  64 Copy quote

• Day and night I always dream with open eyes." - José Martí

  Jose Marti

  Dream, Eye, Night

  "I dream awake". Poem by Jose Marti,

  24 Copy quote

• I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.

  Jose Marti

  Art, Grief, Rain

  Jose Marti (2002). “Selected Writings”, p.273, Penguin

  56 Copy quote

• "Racist" is a confusing word, and it should be clarified. Men have no special rights simply because they belong to one race or another. When you say "men," you have already imbued them with all their rights.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Rights, Race

  "My Race". "Patria" Newspaper, April 16, 1893.

  65 Copy quote

• Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

  Jose Marti

  Exercise, Oppression, Should

  53 Copy quote

Page 1 of 5

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin