Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
Jose Marti
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
Activist
Essayist
Journalist
Linguist
Painter
Poet
Politician
Revolutionary
Soldier
Translator
Writer
Havana
Cuba
Jose Marti
Life
Preservation
Appetite
Leads
Instinct
Sacrifice
Glory
Death
Insatiable
Self
Innate
More quotes by Jose Marti
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
Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
Jose Marti
Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.
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.
Jose Marti
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
The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
Jose Marti
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
Jose Marti
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
Jose Marti
The first duty of a man is to think for himself
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.
Jose Marti
Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
Jose Marti
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
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
Jose Marti
Day and night I always dream with open eyes. - José MartÃ
Jose Marti
One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
Jose Marti
Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.
Jose Marti
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.
Jose Marti
To Educate is to Free.
Jose Marti
It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.
Jose Marti
Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.
Jose Marti
