Jose Julian Marti Perez Quotes

• 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.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

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

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• Charm is a product of the unexpected.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• 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 Julian Marti Perez

• An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• A selfish man is a thief.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

  Jose Julian Marti Perez

• 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.

  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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