Rizal Quotes

“Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.”

“We want the happiness of the Philippines, but we want to obtain it through noble and just means. If I have to commit villainy to make her happy, I would refuse to do so, because I am sure that what is built on sand sooner or later would tumble down.”

“Jangan karena dia menyukai postinganmu dan tidak pernah absen meninggalkan komentar di media sosial lantas kau artikan bawa dia mencintaimu. Dunia maya mudah sekali menipu, membuatmu merasa diberi harapan palsu. Padahal itu salahmu.”

“Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?”

“As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.”

“Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.”

“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.”

“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?”

“My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties.”

“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.”