Top 15 José Rizal Quotes

Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)

José Rizal (June 19 1861 – December 30 1896) or known as José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist, doctor, writer, and polymath whose works and martyred death made him a hero of the Philippine Revolution. His mother was Teodora Alonso and his father is Francisco Mercado. Rizal studied highschool at Ateneo De Manila University and then went to University of Santo Tomas in Manila. He did his post graduate work at the University of Madridin 1882. He was a prolific writer who produced many influential works in different genres. His most notable works were his two novels Noli Me Tangere, published in 1887 and El Filibusterismo, published in 1891, which exposed the injustices of Spanish rule and inspired nationalism. Since he was still young he grew up in a cultured home, with a sizeable library. He learned to read and write. It was his mother who introduced him into the world of books and literature until then he started his literary works and poems that is well known in the Philippines
He was killed by execution by the Spanish Colonial Government on December 30, 1896 at the age of 35 in Bagumbayan, Manila, for the crime of rebellion after the Philippine Revolution broke out, which was inspired by his writings.

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Alternative Names: Dimasalang • Laong Laan • José P. Rizal • José Protasio Rizal • José Protasio Rizal-Mercado y Alonso-Realonda

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

;De nobis, post haec, tristis sententia fertur!:After all this, you still speak ill of us!

;Pure and spotless must the victim be if the sacrifice is to be acceptable.

;The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.

;The school of suffering tempers the spirit, the arena of combat strengthens the soul.

;You must shatter the vase to spread its perfume, and smite the rock to get the spark.

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

;Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?

;There are no tyrants where there are no slaves.

Not all were asleep during the night of our forefathers!

Fate presented itself to some like a chinese fan--one side black, the other side gilded with flowers.

Believing in accidents is like believing in miracles--both presuppose that God does not know the future.

Fame to be sweet must resound in the ears of those we love, in the atmosphere of the land that will guard our ashes. Fame should hover over our tomb to warm with its heat the chill of death, so that we may not be completely reduced to nothingness, that something of us may survive.

Truth does not need to borrow garments from error. (Also translated as: Truth does not need to borrow garments from falsehood.)

I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land.You who have it to see, welcome it--and forget not those who have fallen during the night!

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