Хосе Марти цитаты

страница 3

„Свобода — это право людей свободно действовать, думать и говорить без лицемерия.“

„Родина — это алтарь, а не пьедестал.“

„Люди могут быть на самом деле свободными, только если они по-настоящему образованны.“

„Если свобода тирании ужасна, то тирания свободы внушает отвращение, потрясает, страшит.“

„Человеку требуется страдать. Тот, у кого нет настоящих горестей, создает их сам. Беды очищают и готовят его.“

„Птицам даны крылья, рыбам — плавники, а людям, которые живут в природе, — изучение и познание природы; вот их крылья.“

„Человек с детства должен задумываться обо всем, что он видит, страдать от нечестности, бороться с ложью и должен быть честен прежде всего перед самим собой.“

„Первая обязанность человека - думать самостоятельно.“

„Чтобы верить в небо, в котором нуждается наша душа, нет необходимости верить в ад, который наш разум отвергает.“

„Наблюдать спокойно за преступлением, значит его совершить.“

„Предпочитаю (или: лучше) умереть стоя, чем жить на коленях!“

„Невежество убивает народы.“

„Музыка – лучшее проявление прекрасного.“

„Чтобы быть на шаг впереди других, нужно видеть больше, чем они.“

„День и ночь я всегда мечтаю с открытыми глазами.“

„Прошлое – это корень настоящего. Ты должен знать прошлое, поскольку оно является основой настоящего. Lo pasado es la raíz de lo presente. Ha de saberse lo que fue, porque lo que fue está en lo que es.“

„Чтобы быть на шаг впереди других, нужно видеть больше, чем они. Para ir adelante de los demás, se necesita ver más que ellos.“

„Мы работаем для наших детей, потому что они являются теми, кто умеет по-настоящему любить, ведь они наша надежда.“

„Страдание есть результат несоответствия между желаемым и достигнутым.“

„Я честен, и поэтому мне страшно.“

„Смерть не страшна, если ты выполнил свое предназначение в этой жизни.“

„Прошлое – это корень настоящего. Ты должен знать прошлое, поскольку оно является основой настоящего.“

„Окопы идей гораздо лучше, чем окопы из камней.“

„Знаменитости, много говорящие и мало делающие, быстро и бесследно исчезают. Действие — вот достоинство величия.“

“Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.”

“In nations composed of both cultured and uncultured elements, the uncultured will govern because it is their habit to attack and resolve doubts with their fists in cases where the cultured have failed in the art of governing. The uncultured masses are lazy and timid in the realm of intelligence, and they want to be governed well. But if the government hurts them, they shake it off and govern themselves.”

“Through a marvelous law of natural compensation, he who gives of himself grows, and he who turns inward and lives from small pleasures, is afraid to share them with others, and only thinks avariciously of cultivating his appetites loses his humanity and becomes loneliness itself. He carries in his breast all the dreariness of winter. He becomes in fact and appearance an insect.”

“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!”

“Liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.”

“The vote is the most effective and merciful instrument that man has devised to manage his affairs.”

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

“To insist on racial divisions, on racial differences, in an already divided people, is to place obstacles in the way of public and individual happiness, which can only be obtained by bringing people together as a nation.”

“Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.”

“I am an an honest man
From where the palm tree grows,
And I want, before I die,
to cast these verses from my soul.”

“The trees must form ranks to keep the giant with seven-league boots from passing! It is the time of mobilization, of marching together, and we must go forward in close ranks, like silver in the veins of the Andes.”

“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. To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.”

“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.”

“Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their homes, which were gladdened with a fleeting gladness by an hour of justice — for there are still many slaves, black and white, in Puerto Rico!”

“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.”

“The whole afternoon was spent rejoicing as the demonstration spread across the city; no one walked alone for all San Juan was a single family.”

“Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.”

“Everything that divides men, everything that specified, separates or pens them, is a sin against humanity.”

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

“I dream of cloisters of marble
where in divine silence
the heroes, standing, rest;
at night, in light of the soul,
I speak with them: at night!
They are in a row: I walk
among the rows: the stone hands
I kiss them;
the stone eyes open;
the stone lips move;
the stone beards tremble;
they seize the sword of stone; they cry:
place the sword in the sheath!
Mute, I kiss their hand.”

“One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.”

“The general holds back his cavalry to a pace that suits his infantry, for if its infantry is left behind, the cavalry will be surrounded by the enemy.”

“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.”

“I have lived in the monster and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David.”

“My poems please the brave:
My poems, short and sincere,
Have the force of steel
Which forges swords.”

“Wings I saw springing
from fair women's shoulders,
and from beneath rubble
I've seen butterflies flutter.”

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

“Politics and strategy are one. Nations should live in an atmosphere of self-criticism because it is healthy, but always with one heart and one mind. Stoop to the unhappy, and lift them up in your arms! Thaw out frozen America with the fire of your hearts! Make the natural blood of the nations´ course vigorously through their veins! The new American are on their feet, saluting each other from nation to nation, the eyes of the laborers shining with joy. The natural statesman arises, schooled in the direct study of Nature. He reads to apply his knowledge, not to imitate.”

“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.”