137 Quotes by Jose Marti

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

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

He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.

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

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

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the dignity that accompanies it, how much a free man feels like a king, the perpetual inner light that is produced by decorous self-awareness and realization, perhaps there would be no greater friends of freedom than those who are its worst enemies.

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

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.

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.