Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
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
Humans
Wings
Axle
Without
Bird
Transcendentalism
Done
Essence
Wheel
Life
Air
Wing
Like
Liberty
Whatever
Imperfect
Body
Wheels
Human
Bones
More quotes by Jose Marti
No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop
Jose Marti
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.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.
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
Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.
Jose Marti
Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.
Jose Marti
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
Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.
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
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.
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
The first duty of a man is to think for himself
Jose Marti
Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their homes, which were gladdened with a fleeting gladness by an hour of justice - for there are still many slaves, black and white, in Puerto Rico!
Jose Marti
To Educate is to Free.
Jose Marti
It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
Jose Marti
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.
Jose Marti
It is the duty of man to raise up man.
Jose Marti
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
Jose Marti
He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
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
