Jose Julian Marti Perez Quotes

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

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

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

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

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

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

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

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• 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.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

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

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

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

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• 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 Julian Marti Perez

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

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• 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 Julian Marti Perez

• It is the duty of man to raise up man.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• In truth, men speak too much of danger.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

Jose Julian Marti Perez (56)

Birth:	28th January, 1853
Death:	18th May, 1895
Nationality:	Cuban
Profession:	Activist, Essayist, Journalist, Philosopher, Poet, Professor, Publisher, Theorist, Translator

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