"He who could have been a torch and……" — Jose Marti
"He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter."
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84 Quotes by Jose Marti
Jose Marti has 84 quotes on this site.
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Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.
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Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.
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A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
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The only way to be totally free is through education.
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The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.
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There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
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Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
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Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts,…
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It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.
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Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.
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Oh, what company good poets are!
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Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
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