Quote by Jose Marti
Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who d

Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggars smile from the scorn of free men. – Jose Marti

Other quotes by Jose Marti

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity. – Jose Marti

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Death
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We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. – Jose Marti

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work
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He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief. – Jose Marti

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Money
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Other Quotes from
Exile
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We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America — as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and were rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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Exile

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot. – Joseph Brodsky

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Exile

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. – Cyril Connolly

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Exile

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. – Italo Calvino

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Exile

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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. – R. D. Laing

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Mental Illness

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. – C. Northcote Parkinson, 1958

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New Job

In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry. – Andrew Motion

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Poetry