The quotations of

José Martí

Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist

1853–1895

18 quotes, most often on Love, Government and Politics.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
Martí: Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
- Liberty
- Truth & Lies
Mankind is composed of two sorts of men — those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.
“Letter to a Cuban Farmer” (1893)
- Love
Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
Martí: Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
- Liberty
Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love. But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything.
Martí: Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
- Love
Love is… born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation!
Amor (1887)
- Love
A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots. He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
Martí: Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
- Politics
Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever. Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Martí: Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
- Fame
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.
Martí: Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
- Happiness
It is not the form of things that must be attended to but their spirit. The real is what matters, not the apparent. In politics, reality is that which is unseen.
The Monetary Conference of the American Republics (1891)
- Politics
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
Dedication of the Statue of Liberty (1887)
- Poetry
There must be a certain amount of decorum in the world, just as there must be a certain amount of light.
Martí: Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
- Honor
To govern well, one must see things as they are.
Our America (1891)
- Government
The conceited villager believes the entire world to be his village.
Our America (1891)
- Pride
Everything that divides men, everything that specifies, separates or pens them, is a sin against humanity.
My Race (1893)
- Race
Knowing is what counts. To know one’s country and govern it with that knowledge is the only way to free it from tyranny.
Our America (1891)
- Government
- Knowledge

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