Zitat des Tages von Jose Marti:
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.
To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.
One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.
A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.
He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
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.
There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.
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.
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.
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.
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.
In truth, men speak too much of danger.
Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
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.
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.
A selfish man is a thief.
One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
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.
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
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.
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
It is the duty of man to raise up man.