Jose Marti Men Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the dignity that accompanies it, how much a free man feels like a king, the perpetual inner light that is produced by decorous self-awareness and realization, perhaps there would be no greater friends of freedom than those who are its worst enemies.

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.

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

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

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

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

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

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.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

A selfish man is a thief.

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

Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.

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