137 Quotes by Jose Marti

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

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

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.

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

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

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

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

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