Top 109 Quotes & Sayings by Jose Marti - Page 2

The only way to be totally free is through education.

Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.

In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.

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.

Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those who obey the law of work.

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself.

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

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

Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.

My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water.

Oh, what company good poets are!

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.

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

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop

To beautify life is to give it an object.

Literature is the most beautiful of countries

I have lived in the monster and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David.

We are free, but no to be evil

Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their homes, which were gladdened with a fleeting gladness by an hour of justice - for there are still many slaves, black and white, in Puerto Rico!

The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves; it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom; the country that wants to die sells only to one country , and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one.

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

Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.

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.

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.

The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least.

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

"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.

America is a land of creators and rebels.

My poems please the brave: My poems, short and sincere, Have the force of steel Which forges swords.

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

Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an isolated system of doctrines and whisper in their ear (instead of the sweet message of love) the barbarous gospel of hate.

The spirit of a government must be that of the country. The form of a government must come from the makeup of the country. Government is nothing but the balance of the natural elements of a country.

Cultivo una rosa blanca, En julio como en enero, Para el amigo sincero Que me da su mano franca. Y para el cruel que me arranca El corazon con que vivo, Cardo ni oruga cultivo Cultivo una rosa blanca. I have a white rose to tend In July as in January; I give it to the true friend Who offers his frank hand to me. And to the cruel one whose blows Break the heart by which I live, Thistle nor thorn do I give: For him, too, I have a white rose.

The truthe wakes up once and never dies.

Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.

Strength comes from waiting.

This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.

To Educate is to Free.