Quotes by Jose Rizal

About Jose Rizal:

José Protasio Mercado Rizal y Alonso Realonda is widely considered one of the greatest heroes of the Philippines, and is implied by Philippine law to be a national hero. He was the author of the novels Noli Me Tángere, and El Filibusterismo, and a number of poems and essays.
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The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concer...

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History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb.

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If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.

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My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have...

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It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

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Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.

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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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The Spaniard is gallant and patriotic, and sacrifices everything, in favorable moments, for his country's good. He has the intrepidity of his bull.

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The youth is the hope of our future.

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To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life for?

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As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the su...

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I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will u...

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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!

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He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

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There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

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While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

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He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

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Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through anonymous traitors any honest citizen may be exiled or banished without a hearing, without a trial?

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The divine flame of thought is inextinguishable in the Filipino people, and somehow or other it will shine forth and compel recognition. It is impossible to brutalize the inhabitants of the Philippines!

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Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.

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Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

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Author Bio

  • NameJose Rizal
  • Descriptionnational hero of the Philippines
  • AliasesPepe; Jose Rizal; José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda
  • BornJune 19, 1861
  • DiedDecember 30, 1896
  • CountryPhilippines
  • ProfessionWriter; Linguist; Ophthalmologist; Artist; Painter