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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

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Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

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No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right?

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It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

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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.

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There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

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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.

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

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The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.

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I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and repeat my words) that reforms, to be beneficial, must come from above, that those which come from below are irregularly gained and uncertain.

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Biography

Nationality: Filipino

Type: Writer

Born: June 19th, 1861

Died: December 30th, 1896

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