108 Quotes by Jose Rizal

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

A faith pure and simple distinguishes itself from superstition as a flame from the smoke and music from noise.

I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land. You who have it to see, welcome it ... and forget not those who have fallen during the night!

How long have you been away from the country?" Laruja asked Ibarra."Almost seven years.""Then you have probably forgotten all about it.""Quite the contrary. Even if my country does seem to have forgotten me, I have always thought about it.

I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.

Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?

Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

The people believe that those who do not think as they do are fools. For that reason, they take me for such, and I am grateful, because woe is me! The day the would wish to give me back my sanity, that day they'll deprive me of the little liberty that I have bought at the cost of my reputation as a rational being. And who knows if they are right? I neither think nor live according to their laws; my principles, my ideals are different.