Tag Archives: Jose Rizal

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

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

The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating, some day the spark will be generated. 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

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves. Jose Rizal

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

Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest. Jose Rizal

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish. Jose Rizal

Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through anonymous traitors any honest citizen may be exiled or banished without a hearing, without a trial? Jose Rizal

It is probable that England will look favorably upon the independence of the Philippines, for it will open their ports to her and afford greater freedom to her commerce. Jose Rizal