Top 90 José Martí Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.”

— José Martí

52. “A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one’s self from the tyranny of any of them.”

— José Martí

53. “No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery’s crop.”

— José Martí

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

— José Martí

55. “To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.”

— José Martí

56. “Hatred, slavery’s inevitable aftermath.”

— José Martí

57. “The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.”

— José Martí

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

— José Martí

59. “Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.”

— José Martí

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

— José Martí

61. “The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.”

— José Martí

62. “Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.”

— José Martí

63. “It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.”

— José Martí

64. “The truthe wakes up once and never dies.”

— José Martí

65. “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.”

— José Martí

66. “Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.”

— José Martí

67. “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.”

— José Martí

68. “In truth, men speak too much of danger.”

— José Martí

69. “It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.”

— José Martí

70. “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.”

— José Martí

71. “Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.”

— José Martí

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

— José Martí

73. “The spirit of a government must be that of the country. The form of a government must come from the makeup of the country. Government is nothing but the balance of the natural elements of a country.”

— José Martí

74. “Oh, what company good poets are!”

— José Martí

75. “Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.”

— José Martí

76. “America is a land of creators and rebels.”

— José Martí

77. “He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.”

— José Martí

78. “In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.”

— José Martí

79. “It is the duty of man to raise up man.”

— José Martí

80. “We are free, but no to be evil.”

— José Martí

81. “Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.”

— José Martí

82. “Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.”

— José Martí

83. “The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.”

— José Martí

84. “Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.”

— José Martí

85. “Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.”

— José Martí

86. “A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.”

— José Martí

87. “A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel’s work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.”

— José Martí

88. “A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself.”

— José Martí

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

— José Martí

90. “The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least.”

— José Martí

91. “I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.”

— José Martí

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

— José Martí

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

— José Martí

94. “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.”

— José Martí

95. “Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.”

— José Martí