Famous phrases by Ramiro de Maeztu

Ramiro de Maeztu He was a Spanish writer and political theorist. Lived between 1874 and 1936. It belonged to the generation of 98 and was a driver of the concept of "Hispanity" and everything that represents. In addition, he was a member of the Spanish Academy.

Ramiro de Maeztu's works are one of the great legacies that Spanish culture has. They have a great political, philosophical, historical and patriotic background.

Ramiro de Maeztu, a right -wing intellectual, Conservative and close to liberal positions, aroused hatred among the most exalted Republicans (socialists, communists, anarchists and separatists). When the Civil war, He was arrested with other people and executed without prior trial in the Madrid town of Aravaca. When the time of his vile murder came, he exclaimed before him Fusilating squad:

You do not know why you kill me, but I do know what I am dying: so that your children are better than you!

Famous phrases by Ramiro de Maeztu

Perhaps the educational work that is most urgent in the world is to convince peoples that their greatest enemies are the men who promise them impossible.

We did not defend our being enough. And now we are at the mercy of the winds.

Freedom does not have its value itself: you have to appreciate it for the things that are achieved with it.

Inequality is essential in man's life: there is no more leveling standard than death.

Freedom is our own tyranny; tyranny is the freedom of others.

The advantage of democracy over the other forms of government is that there is no caste interested in suffocating thought so that it does not discuss it.

Living is astonishing to be in the world, feeling strange, filling in anguish in the face of the contingency to stop being, understanding the constant probability of getting lost, the need to make friends with beings, the contingency of being enemies, and being alert to the genuine and to the spurreous, to the truth and the error.

The characteristic of consciousness is the restlessness, constant surveillance, the perennial disposition to the defense. Being is defending.

Life is presented to us in an unbearable dilemma: whatever it does not last; what is not worth eternize.

The Spanish sense of humanism was formulated by Don Quijote, when he said: Repairs, brother Sancho, that no one is more than another, if he does nothing more than another

There is no work in universal history comparable to that made by Spain, because we have incorporated into Christian civilization to all the races that were under our influence.

The homeland is spirit. This says that the being of the country is based on a value or an accumulation of values, with which the children of a territory in the soil that inhabit are linked.

Our Hispanic sense tells us that any man, no matter how fallen he is, can rise; But also fall, overlooking. In this possibility of falling or getting up all men are the same.

No one is more than another if it does more than another.

It makes no sense to say that men are the same before the law, when it is the law maintaining their inequality.

In front of the Jews, who are the most exclusive people on earth, our feeling of Catholicity and Universality was forged, which is the main culmination of our race.

The fraternity of men cannot have more foundation than the conscience of the common fatherhood of God.

It happened to me that when English praise absorbed my personality, moving away from the spiritual ties that link me to the country, I have abandoned London more than in a hurry, to go to Spain. No no!; First of all, I'm Spanish!