Jose Marti Quotes

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Jose Marti

Profession : Activist

Birth : January 28, 1853

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

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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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.

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Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

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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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One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

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Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

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A selfish man is a thief.

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We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

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The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

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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.

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

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

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Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

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