The 70+ Jose Rizal Quotes

In The Middle Ages, Everything Bad Was The Work Of The Devil, Everything Good, The Work Of God. Today, The French See Everything In Reverse And Blame The Germans For It.

A God Who Chastises Our Lack Of Faith, Our Vices, The Little Esteem In Which We Hold Dignity And The Civic Virtues. We Tolerate Vice, We Make Ourselves Its Accomplices, At Times We Applaud It, And It Is Just, Very Just That We Suffer The Consequences, That Our Children Suffer Them. It Is The God Of Liberty ... Who Obliges Us To Love It, By Making The Yoke Heavy For Us - A God Of Mercy, Of Equity, Who While He Chastises Us Betters Us And Only Grants Prosperity To Him Who Has Merited It Through His Efforts. The School Of Suffering Tempers, The Arena Of Combat Strengthens The Soul.

Friar! What A Strange Name. I Don't Remember Having Created Such A Thing!

If The Philippines Secure Their Independence After Heroic And Stubborn Conflicts, They Can Rest Assured That Neither England, Nor Germany, Nor France, And Still Less Holland, Will Dare To Take Up What Spain Has Been Unable To Hold.

No, Let Us Not Make God In Our Image, Poor Inhabitants That We Are Of A Distant Planet Lost In Infinite Space. However Brilliant And Sublime Our Intelligence May Be, It Is Scarcely More Than A Small Spark Which Shines And In An Instant Is Extinguished, And It Alone Can Give Us No Idea Of That Blaze, That Conflagration, That Ocean Of Light!

How Long Have You Been Away From The Country?" Laruja Asked Ibarra. "almost Seven Years." "then You Have Probably Forgotten All About It." "quite The Contrary. Even If My Country Does Seem To Have Forgotten Me, I Have Always Thought About It.

To The Questioning Glance Of Love, As It Flashes Out And Then Conceals Itself, Speech Has No Reply; The Smile, The Kiss, The Sigh Answer.

Death Has Always Been The First Sign Of European Civilization When Introduced In The Pacific.

When There Is In Nature No Fixed Condition, How Much Less Must There Be In The Life Of A People, Beings Endowed With Mobility And Movement!

But Because Their Ancestors Were Men Of Righteousness, Shall We Consent To The Abuses Of Their Degenerate Descendants? Because They Did Us A Great Good, Would We Be Guilty If We Prevented Them From Doing Us Evil?

Your Enemies Hate You More Than They Hate Your Ideas. Should You Want A Project To Be Undone Propose It. Even If It Were As Useful As A Bishop's Mire It Would Be Rejected. Once You Are Defeated Let The Humblest-looking Among You Sponsor It And Your Enemies To Humble You Will Approve It.

She Was White, Perhaps Too White. Her Eyes, Which Were Almost Always Cast Down, When She Raised Them Testified To The Purest Of Souls, And When She Smiled, Revealing Her Small, White Teeth, One Might Be Tempted To Say That A Rose Is Merely A Plant, And Ivory Just An Elephant's Tusk.