Jose Marti Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.”

“Charm is a product of the unexpected.”

“A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.”

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