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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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.

Jose Rizal

My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected my poems and gave me advice when I was studying rhetoric.

Jose Rizal

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

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The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.

Jose Rizal

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

Jose Rizal

The Philippine races, like all the Malays, do not succumb before the foreigner, like the Australians, the Polynesians and the Indians of the New World.

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The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.

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Spain, must we some day tell Filipinas that thou hast no ear for her woes and that if she wishes to be saved she must redeem herself?

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China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismembered or partitioned among the European powers that are colonizing the continent of Asia.

Jose Rizal

I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and repeat my words) that reforms, to be beneficial, must come from above, that those which come from below are irregularly g...

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Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, a...

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I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land. You who have it to see, welcome it ... and forget not those who have fallen during the night!

Jose Rizal

Pure intuitive faith differs as much from fanaticism as fire from smoke, or music from mere noise; those who confuse the two are like the deaf.

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One should remember that where nobody flees, there is no pursuer: that where there are no little fish, there can be no big ones. Why does the girl not require her lover a noble and honoured name, a manly heart to protect her weakness, and a resolute ...

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We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to time turn our gaze upon our elders. We shall wish to read in their countenances approval of our actions.

Jose Rizal

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