Jose Marti Cuba Quotes

Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other

Is fed with the necessity of seeing each other

It is concluded with the impossibility of separation. ~ Alisa Valdes

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

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

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

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

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them. ~ Jose Marti

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. ~ Jose Marti

The truthe wakes up once and never dies. ~ Jose Marti

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

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

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. ~ Jose Marti

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

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. ~ Jose Marti

Sane love, is not love ~ Jose Marti

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect. ~ Jose Marti

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well. ~ Jose Marti

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

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

Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love. ~ Jose Marti

To change masters is not to be free. ~ Jose Marti

To Educate is to Free. ~ Jose Marti

Life on earth is hand-to-hand mortal combat ... between the law of love and the law of hate. ~ Jose Marti

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

Yet God does exist in the idea of good, which watches over the birth of every being and leaves in the soul embodied in that being one pure tear. Good is God, and the tear the source of eternal feeling. ~ Jose Marti

Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us. ~ Jose Marti

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. ~ Jose Marti

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. ~ Jose Marti

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. ~ Jose Marti

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo. ~ Jose Marti

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom. ~ Jose Marti

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

People can only be free if they are truly educated. ~ Jose Marti

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter. ~ Jose Marti

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

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief. ~ Jose Marti

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

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest. ~ Jose Marti

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. ~ Jose Marti