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Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?
— Ambeth R. Ocampo
The Spaniard is gallant and patriotic, and sacrifices everything, in favorable moments, for his country's good. He has the intrepidity of his bull.
— Jose Rizal
The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.
— Jose Rizal
Hold high the brow serene,
O youth, where now you stand;
Let the bright sheen
Of your grace be seen,
Fair hope of my fatherland! — Jose Rizal
O youth, where now you stand;
Let the bright sheen
Of your grace be seen,
Fair hope of my fatherland! — Jose Rizal
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?
— Jose Rizal
There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
— Jose Rizal
These Filipinos will be your worst enemies if you commit the imprudence of attacking the Spaniards without the necessary preparation.
— Ambeth R. Ocampo
We must win when we deserve it, by elevating reason and the dignity of the individual, loving justice and the good and the great, even dying for it.
— Jose Rizal
For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.
— Jose Rizal
A revolution, woven in the dim light of mystery, has kept me from you. Another revolution will return me to your arms, bring me back to life.
— Jose Rizal
To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!
— Jose Rizal
I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.
— Jose Rizal
I fear for my books.
— Jose Rizal
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great deal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.
— Jose P. Rizal
The righteous man pays the sinner's bill.
— Jose Rizal
Virtue lies in the middle ground.
— Jose Rizal
Vice pays for its own freedom.
— Jose Rizal
Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.
— Jose Rizal
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?
— Jose Rizal
The youth is the hope of our future.
— Jose Rizal
Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.
— Ambeth R. Ocampo
what is the meaning of that.. can anyone help me.
— Jose Rizal
There are no tyrants if there are no slaves
— Jose Rizal
The glory of saving a country doesn't mean having to use the measures that contributed to its ruin!
— Jose Rizal
Genius knows no country, genius sprouts anywhere, genius is like light, air. the patrimony of everybody, cosmopolitan like space, like life, like God.
— Jose Rizal
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
— Jose Rizal
The gods are leaving.
— Jose Rizal
Rizal's greatest misfortune is being national hero of the Philippines.
— Ambeth R. Ocampo
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.
— Jose Rizal
To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.
— Jose Rizal
Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.
— Ambeth R. Ocampo
He who would love much has also much to suffer.
— Jose Rizal
A lie among the stars
Is a comfortable lie. — Jose Rizal
Is a comfortable lie. — Jose Rizal
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.
— Jose Rizal
He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.
— Jose Rizal
Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
-Dr. Jose Rizal — Jose Rizal
-Dr. Jose Rizal — Jose Rizal
Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.
— Jose Rizal
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.
— Jose Rizal
People believe that madness is when you don't think as they do, which is why they take me for a madman.
— Jose Rizal
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!
— Jose Rizal
Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.
— Jose Rizal
Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight, to die to give you life, to rest under your sky; and in your enchanted land forever sleep.
— Jose Rizal
The world laughs at another man's pain.
— Jose Rizal
Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.
— Jose Rizal
I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others.
— Jose Rizal
As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.
— Ambeth R. Ocampo
Ah, is this thing that you call tinola a variety of lotus which makes people - er - forgetful?
— Jose Rizal
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.
— Jose Rizal
The sword must yield to the toga, Cicero had told the Roman Senate, and the friars in the Philippines thought a cassock was as good as a toga. But
— Jose Rizal
Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.
— Jose Rizal
Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.
— Jose Rizal
In the Philippines you are not considered to be honorable unless you have been to jail.
— Jose Rizal
A faith pure and simple distinguishes itself from superstition as a flame from the smoke and music from noise.
— Jose Rizal
On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart.
— Jose Rizal
The God they preach about is pure invention, a trick. They're the first ones to not believe in Him!
— Jose Rizal
Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.
— Jose Rizal
I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.
— Jose Rizal
Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.
— Jose Rizal