Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds. Jose Rizal More Quotes by Jose Rizal More Quotes From Jose Rizal 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 spain germany independence Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces. Jose Rizal divinity powerful world I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers. -Juan Crisostomo Ibarra Jose Rizal sacrifice liberty people There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves. Jose Rizal tyrants slave A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues. We tolerate vice, we make ourselves its accomplices, at times we applaud it, and it is just, very just that we suffer the consequences, that our children suffer them. It is the God of liberty ... who obliges us to love it, by making the yoke heavy for us - a God of mercy, of equity, who while He chastises us betters us and only grants prosperity to him who has merited it through his efforts. The school of suffering tempers, the arena of combat strengthens the soul. Jose Rizal effort children school 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 mobility movement people In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it. Jose Rizal devil age today Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing! Jose Rizal strange names remember Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific. Jose Rizal pacific civilization firsts Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest. Jose Rizal injustice nations virtue justice The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen. Jose Rizal now former confidence people 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! Jose Rizal shine thought impossible people 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 concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities. Jose Rizal government speak truth knowledge I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me which makes me blush or lower my forehead; and I hope that God will be merciful enough with me, to prevent me from committing one of those faults which would involve my family. Jose Rizal me family hope god Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life. Jose Rizal poverty care change life He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish. Jose Rizal fish own language animal love 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. Jose Rizal different race history people 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 nation wish time trying 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 sufferings of my fellowmen. Jose Rizal small duty god world Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously, without damaging reservations, without irritating mistrust. Jose Rizal without irritating government rights
