Jose Rizal Quotes

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• It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing.
• On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart.
• Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.
• Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing!
• To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.
• The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.
• No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that…
• I want to show to those who deprive people the right to love of country, that when we know how to sacrifice ourselves for our…
• Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
• He who would love much has also much to suffer.
• Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
• God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them…
• Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.
• Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.
• The youth is the hope of our future.
• Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided…
• A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues. We tolerate vice,…
• To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.
• What is death to me? I have sown the seeds others will reap.
• To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.

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