Jose Marti Quotes - Page 3

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

  Jose Marti

  Justice, Diversity, Enemy

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

  Jose Marti

  Freedom, Names, Liberty

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

  Jose Marti

  Ideas, Mistress, Bed

  Jose Marti's letter, 1890.

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• He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

  Jose Marti

  Office, Thieves, Use

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• Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.

  Jose Marti

  Wine, Identity, Bitter

  "US and Cuba keep their distance" by Stephen Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2009.

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• Charm is a product of the unexpected.

  Jose Marti

  Unexpected, Charm, Products

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

  Jose Marti

  Men, Order, Needs

  "Vivir en Sí [To Live in Oneself]". Essay by Jose Marti, 1891.

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

  Jose Marti

  Beautiful, Light, Firsts

  "José Martí : Selected Writings", by Jose Marti, translated by Esther Allen, (p. 275), 2002.

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• 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

  Sweet, Hate, People

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

  Jose Marti

  Fire, Hatred, Abjection

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• America is a land of creators and rebels.

  Jose Marti

  Land, America, Rebel

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• The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.

  Jose Marti

  Struggle, Heart, Support

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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

  Jose Marti

  Light, May, Bread

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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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.

  Jose Marti

  Children, Honesty, Men

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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

  Jose Marti

  Spiritual, Real, Men

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

  Jose Marti

  Torches, Pairs, Stoops

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• 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

  Children, Men, Thinking

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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

  Jose Marti

  Liberty, Speak, Without You

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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.

  Jose Marti

  Together, Privilege, Strive

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• 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.

  Jose Marti

  Country, Order, Balance

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

  Jose Marti

  Silence, World, Flow

  Jose Marti (2002). “Selected Writings”, p.275, Penguin

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

  Jose Marti

  Use, Benefits, Theft

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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

  Jose Marti

  Self, Justice, Diversity

  "On Oscar Wilde". Essay by Jose Marti, 1882.

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• Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Mountain Peaks, Mountain

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• 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

  Trust, Delicate Life, Honor

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