"Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction."
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist, writer, and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is popularly considered a national hero of the Philippines. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer and a key member of the Filipino Propaganda Movement in the 1880s, which advocated political reforms for the colony u
"The Philippines should be grateful to you if you would write a complete history of our country from an impartial point of view.. But dont expect thanks and laurels--crowns of flowers and laurels are the inventions of free people. But perhaps your children may gather the fruit of what the father planted."
José Rizal"To doubt God is to doubt ones own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything."
José Rizal"Each one writes history according to his convenience."
José Rizal"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."
José Rizal"Friar! What a strange name. I dont remember having created such a thing! (God speaking to the angel Gabriel)"
José Rizal"Virtue lies in the middle ground."
José Rizal