Marti Quotes

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour. ~ Jose Marti

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

I think the barrier for a lot of people to actual, real, lasting love is the fantasy. The problem is that we think in "happily ever after" love, but real love grows over time, and priorities change. ~ Marti Noxon

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

The first duty of a man is to think for himself ~ 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

To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft. ~ Jose Marti

White Evangelicals neither obscure nor ignore their religious convictions when they declare their allegiance to the 45th president. In fact, their actions indicate a preeminent concern with upholding orthodoxy. In the case of President Trump, observers should focus on discerning the orthodoxy of an actor who is perceived as religiously legitimate primarily because he engages in actions in support of religiously defined group interests rather than as a result of statements of belief or piety of behavior. While fear, nostalgia, racial resentment, and white nationalism have all been analytical pieces of the Trump support puzzle scholars have been weaving together since November 2016, a critical aspect of Trump support is to assert, rather than deny, that he is indeed unexpectedly religiously orthodox in the conduct of his presidency ~ Gerardo 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

One particular aspect of the civic republican tradition that obviously caught Mr. Zapatero's attention was the eyeball test to which Pettit had drawn attention in his book (1997, 166; see also chapter 2 in this volume). According to this test you enjoy freedom in relation to others - to a particular other or to others as represented in a group or in a government - only insofar as you can look them in the eye, without fear or deference, with a shared consciousness of this equal status. ~ Jose Luis Marti

Let others see their own greatness when looking in your eyes. ~ Mollie Marti

God is weeping. And how the people weep when they make God weep! ~ Jose Marti

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

Day and night I always dream with open eyes. ~ Jose Marti

I always wanted to play Roxie Hart in Chicago and also Sally Bowles in Kander and Ebb's Cabaret, but I have a feeling I won't now! I've also always wanted to play Maria in The Sound of Music, but don't suppose I'll ever do that either! ~ Marti Webb

Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity. ~ Mollie Marti

I've lived in a flat in Westminster in London for over 20 years; and I also have a house in the country, down in Somerset, so I have the best of both worlds. ~ Marti Webb

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

Mastery is the breeding ground of fresh, creative passion. ~ Mollie Marti

Your greatest responsibility is to live a life that nourishes your highest truth. ~ Mollie Marti

High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self. ~ Mollie Marti

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

Charm is a product of the unexpected. ~ Jose Marti

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

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

Mientras mas honda la herida,
Es mi canto mas hermoso.
While more deeper is the wound
The more beautiful the art. ~ Jose Marti

Only tyranny fears the full expression of liberty. ~ Jose Marti

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove. ~ Jose Marti

Man can never be more perfect than the sun. The sun burns us with the same light that warms us. The sun has spots (stains). The ungrateful only talk about the spots (stains). The grateful talk about the light. ~ Jose Marti

The religious and economic alliance represented in the Tea {arty remains misunderstood and out of the public eye. The Tea Party movement was formed primarily as an antitax movement, and that limiting government spending and reducing taxes, drawing on the symbols of the Boston Tea Party. As important as these initial catalysts were, the power for the movement came from its adoption of white evangelical conservatives. ~ Gerardo Marti

Every person is a living treasure box. Listening holds the key. ~ Mollie Marti

Absolutely, love exists in this universe. ~ Marti Noxon

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. ~ Jose Marti

The grass is always greener. You think how wonderful it would be to be someone else, but I don't think I would like it. I'm thrilled to observe other people, but I don't want to be in their shoes. If I got there, I might find it not quite what I expected, and it would break my illusion, and I don't want that! ~ Marti Webb

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

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

The characters tell their story - I am merely the tool used to record it ~ Marti Melville

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

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

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

Your truest spiritual path will lead you to yourself for it is devoted to becoming. ~ Mollie Marti

We are all simply reacting, played by events that occurred centuries before. ~ Marti Melville

Each life experience poses this question: how do you want to be changed because of me? ~ Mollie Marti

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop ~ 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

Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity. ~ Jose Marti

The only way to be totally free is through education. ~ Jose Marti

You know, when someone hurts my feelings, somehow it does not comfort me to know that it was deliberate ... On the other hand, knowing that someone else thinks they are assholes helps a great deal."
"I think that's some kind of rule for the universe. ~ John Barnes

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness. ~ Jose Marti

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

Marti wasn't the type to give up without a fight, especially not if she was very afraid - some people are like that. They lean into the fear. ~ John Barnes

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

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

The voice of women and the voice of nature have been muted under patriarchy. Women and nature are considered objects under patriarchy, and objects do not speak, objects do not feel, and objects have no needs. Objects exist only to serve the needs of others. ~ Marti Kheel

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

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. ~ Jose Marti

To Educate is to Free. ~ 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

Helping others in need is not only a responsibility of life; it is what gives meaning to life. ~ Mollie Marti

We are free, but no to be evil ~ 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

There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity. ~ Mollie Marti

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

Sane love, is not love ~ Jose Marti

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

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

Sphinx Resurrected by Christine Murphy gives a new romantic twist to the realm of the paranormal. The world building is extraordinary and pulls you in to the powerful domain of the Sphinx Warriors and won't let you go. ~ Marti Ziegler

In truth, men speak too much of danger. ~ Jose Marti

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

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

The more you become aware of and respond to the needs of others, the richer your own life becomes. ~ Mollie Marti

A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity. ~ Mollie 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

With every choice you create the life you'll live; with every decision you design it. ~ Mollie Marti

at just under fifteen miles over the speed limit. He knew from experience it was the safety zone, the ~ Marti Green

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

The second difference between the introvert and the extrovert is how they experience external stimulation. Extroverts like to experience a lot, and introverts like to know a lot about what they experience. ~ Marti Olsen Laney

By noon everyone had heard that I had spent the night with Marti in a hotel room and when the cops came by, with our mothers, I had asked for time to get dressed. It was also all over the school that I had deliberately provoked Gratz and lived to tell of it, and that Paul had knocked me flat. And on top of that, Spooky Darla had given me a thermonuclear kiss in public.
No getting away from it: I was now Public Madman Number One. ~ John Barnes

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

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

Midnight Omen Deja vu - Because everyone should experience love in the Caribbean ... at least once in a lifetime. ~ Marti Melville

Guinea Pig never has the same name two weeks in a row. This ~ Marti Dumas

As part of humanity, each of us is called to develop and share the unique gifts we are given. ~ Mollie Marti

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel. ~ 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

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible. ~ Jose Marti

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you. ~ Jose Marti

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

Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived. ~ Mollie Marti

Your greatest path of influence is love. ~ Mollie Marti

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

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly. ~ Jose Marti

White women had a fundamental role in building this new, more combative Christian right. Their attitudes and political viewpoints came as a reaction to social change. It would seem that white evangelical women would've been deeply offended by Trump's multiple marriages, documented and highly public infidelities, and, most famously, the Access Hollywood tape released in 2016 of a dialogue between television host Billy Bush and Donald Trump:

Trump: You know I'm automatically attracted to be beautiful women - I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything

Bush: Whatever you want.

Trump: Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything.

Yet data show that a majority of white evangelical women voted for Trump. Moreover, the higher their church attendance, the more likely they were to vote for Trump… ~ Gerardo Marti

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. ~ Jose Marti

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever. ~ Jose Marti

Listen for the call of your destiny, and when it comes, release your plans and follow. ~ Mollie Marti