Jose Marti Quotations

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

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop

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

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.

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

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.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

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

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