Jose Rizal Quotes
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To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.
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I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers.
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The youth is the hope of our future.
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It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing.
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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.
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Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
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God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night.
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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.
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To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.
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Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
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I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.
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Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.
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The world laughs at another man's pain.
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While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
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There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
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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!
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One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.
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Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.
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No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being.
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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.
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I believe in revelation, but not in revelation which each religion claims to possess, but in the living revelation which surrounds us on every side - mighty, eternal, unceasing, incorruptible, clear, distinct, universal as is the being from whom it proceeds, in that revelation which speaks to us and penetrates us from the moment we are born until we die.
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Each one writes history according to his convenience.