Best Jose Rizal Sayings
- No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet;… Begins
- I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the… Country
- Dying people don't need medicine, the ones who remain do. Dying
- The appetite is sharpened by the first bites. Appetite
- As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I… All
- We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to time turn our gaze… Actions
- I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me which makes me blush… Able
- My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected my poems and… Advice
- When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and… Beings
- Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them. Delicacy
- The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen. Confidence
- Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through anonymous traitors any… All
- The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating, some… Accumulate
- There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement,… All
- The divine flame of thought is inextinguishable in the Filipino people, and somehow or other it will shine forth and compel recognition. It is impossible… Brutalize
- Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order… Addicted
- Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life. Adventurous
- The Philippine races, like all the Malays, do not succumb before the foreigner, like the Australians, the Polynesians and the Indians of the New World. All
- The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people. Civilization
- If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of… Control
- The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may… Absolutely
- Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous. Dangerous
- No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino… Arises
- Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest. Arouses
- History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of… Annals