Jose Marti Quotes

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



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.

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A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

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A selfish man is a thief.

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

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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.

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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.

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Charm is a product of the unexpected.

Jose Marti