José Martí: Quotes about love

“Mankind is composed of two sorts of men — those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.”

José Martí

"Letter to a Cuban Farmer" (1893)

Love , Men , Hate

“Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.”

José Martí

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
Context: Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever. Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

Love , Men

“Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.”

José Martí

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
Context: There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. To fulfill one's duty elevates the soul to a state of constant sweetness. Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

Love , Men , World , Way

“But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.”

José Martí

Love , Soul , Nature , Sun

“Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat… between the law of love and the law of hate.”

José Martí

Letter (1881), as quoted in The Conscience of Worms and the Cowardice of Lions : Cuban Politics and Culture in an American Context (1993) by Irving Louis Horowit, p. 11

Love , Life , Hate , Law

“Love is… born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation!”

José Martí

Amor (1887)

Love , Pleasure

“The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women. But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.”

José Martí

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)

Love , Women , Support , Nature

“Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love. But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything.”

José Martí

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)