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“‎Sometimes we have to lie so that we do not needlessly hurt others. The important thing is that we are honest with ourselves. That we know how to bend without breaking ourselves. -Crepusculo Lepidoptera”
― F. Sionil José

“Tungkulin mong tumulong sa kapwa dahil may kakayahan ka at gusto mong tumulong pero wag mong kalimutan na hindi mo mababago ang mundo at hindi mo matutulungan ang lahat ng tao. Hindi ikaw ang unang nagtangka hindi ikaw ang magiging huli hindi ka solusyon. Pero hindi yun ang dahilan para mawalan ka ng pag-asa at tumigil na magbigay nito. Mang Ernesto: Kapitan Sino by Bob Ong”
― Bob Ong

“‎Life is worth living really but only if we believe it is, if we believe further that life is eternal not because the tissues last forever, but because the imagination never dies”
― F. Sionil José, Puppy Love and Thirteen Short Stories

“Ang katuturan ng karanasan at istoriya'y di ang pagtanda sa mga pangyayari, kundi ang pagtatamo ng aral sa kanila.”
― Amado V. Hernandez, Mga Ibong Mandaragit

“Ang kagandahan ng demokrasya'y di lamang ang karapatan ng nakakarami upang mamahala, kundi angkapantay na karapatan ng kaunti upang sumalungat”
― Amado V. Hernandez, Mga Ibong Mandaragit

“Ang kahapo'y saliga ng ngayon, at ang ngayo'y haligi ng kinabukasan. Gusto kong sabihi'y ang diwa ng ating mga bayaning nangabulid sa karimla'y siya ring dapat tumanglaw sa mga nagmamahal sa bayan sa panahong ito. Pagka't ang magiging bunga ng inyong mga gawai'y siyang magbibigay ng lakas sa hahaliling salin.”
― Amado V. Hernandez, Mga Ibong Mandaragit

“Ang bawa't bayani ay may kaukulang panahon, kung panong ang kapanahunan at mgapangyayaring umiiral ay lumilikha ng mga bayaning kailangan niya.”
― Amado V. Hernandez, Mga Ibong Mandaragit

“Naryan ang kaibhan ng armas sa isang ideya. Ang sandata'y nakagigiba't pumapatay lamang; ang ideya'y nakagigiba't nakabubuo, pumapatay at bumubuhay.”
― Amado V. Hernandez, Mga Ibong Mandaragit

“Hindi kokonti ang kababayan nating sa akala nila'y pwede at mabuti ang maging estaranghero sila. Ginagawa nila ito sa wika, sa damit, sa kilos. Pati sa kanilang bahay e di na kinakausap ang mga anak kung di sa Ingles, ikinahihiyang magsuot ng barong katutubo, ayaw manood ng dula ar pelikula sa sariling wika, ayaw kumain ng kanin, at sumasama ang sikmura pagka humithit ng sigarilyong di imported. Subalit nagiging katatawanan lamang sila sa tingin ng kanilang mga hinuhuwad.”
― Amado V. Hernandez, Mga Ibong Mandaragit

“Hindi masama ang dumayo sa banyagang lupalop upang paunlarin ang sarili. Pero kung ikaw e maunlad na'y dapat bumalik sa pinagmulan at du'n gamitin ang kaunlaran. Walang lupang dayuhan na maaari mong ipalit sa 'yong sinilangan.”
― Amado V. Hernandez, Mga Ibong Mandaragit

“Napakaraming magaling na bagay ang dapat uliranin ng Pilipinas sa Amerika. Sa kasamaang palad, tulad ng ipinangamba ni Rizal, and unang pinulot ay ang masasamang halimbawa, ang mga bisyo at kahinaan. Tinangka ng karamihang Pilipino na magbuhay-Amerikano sa wika, sa damit, sa kilos at ugali, gayong ito’y hindi maaari kalian pa man. Pilit na ipinatatakwil sa kabataan ang huwad ng gaslaw at ikot ng sa banyaga, walang nais panoorin kundi mga laro, pelikula at ibang libangang dayuhan, walang nais basahin kundi mga babasahing sinulat ng dayo at limbag sa labas ng Pilipinas. Saan patutungo ang kabataang may ganitong kamulatan?”
― Amado V. Hernandez, Mga Ibong Mandaragit

“It is easy to forgive a person his faults when he is dead because in death, he atones for his sins somewhat before the eyes of people who are still living and who have yet to add more on the parchment where their sins are listed.”
― F. Sionil José, Tree

“A Man's suicide is the ultimate violence he can fling against the granite circumstance he could not vanquish. Its a lonely and desperate act of supreme courage, not weakness. But it is also an admission of total failure, and the destruction of the self is the end of one person's struggle, an end where from there would be no rebirth or resurrection-nothing but the blackness, the impenetrable muck the hides everything, sometimes even the reason for death itself.”
― F. Sionil José, Tree

“I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.”
― F. Sionil José, Tree

“While violence is necessary, it is not the only instrument for change. There are others just as good. But you must accept violence- you cannot begin to build until you have destroyed. You don't know love until you have hated.”
― F. Sionil José, Mass

“We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept compromise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves.”
― F. Sionil José, Mass

“Every time we make jokes about how jologs someone's school is, we are not insulting the poor student's intellectual abilities but their parents' financial capacity.”
― Lourd Ernest H. de Veyra, The Best of This Is A Crazy Planets

“If we cannot agree on what was important yesterday, what more on events that happened a hundred or three hundred years ago? The point here is that history is open ended and we cannot be sure about the past. So why study history? Because it teaches us to see the connections between events. Knowing how and why a certain event happened is helpful because in many cases people separated by time and place can sometimes be in similar situations. They can be mentally contemporaneous without knowing it. History gives us hindsight.”
― Ambeth Ocampo, Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures

“We do not conquer life, no one can conquer what one cannot define, but at least it is there and it is ours to shape and to possess fully, with all the senses working, with all the powers of the heart surging, as we search for the answer to the greatest riddle of them all- death, the ultimate end, the enemy of all men, the final quietus to the noblest of emotions, the tenacity and ethereal creativity of faith.”
― F. Sionil José, My Brother, My Executioner

“We read because they teach us about people, we can see ourselves in them,in their problems.And by seeing ourselves in them, we clarify ourselves, we explain ourselves to ourselves, so we can live with ourselves...”
― F. Sionil José, Ermita

“Never, never hide your pain, scream as if you are dying so you will not be harmed more. Never, never hide your poverty, too. The worst enemies of the poor are the poor themselves. And never, never appear that you are virtuous and without sin. It it is the virtuous who have many enemies because for they shame the many without virtue.”
― F. Sionil José, Ben Singkol

“You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves”
― F. Sionil José, Ben Singkol

“The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made.”
― F. Sionil José, Ermita

“Pag di mo na nadarama'ng mga kapakinabangan ng buhay at ang buhay ay wala nang kapakinabangan sa'yo, dapat ka nang mamatay. 'Yong pinakamabuting maaaring mangyari sa'yo, sa gano'ng kalagayan.”
― Edgardo M. Reyes, Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag

“We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as Stendhal has described it) the internal inflorescence, already steeped in every kind of fluid, condenses and crystallizes—a magical second, like the moment of generation, and like that moment concealed in the warm interior of the individual life, invisible, untouchable, beyond the reach of feeling, a secret experienced alone.”
― Anonymous