Jose Marti Quotes on Man (16 Quotes)

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

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

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.

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

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.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

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.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

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.

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.

Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.

A selfish man is a thief.

Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.