Ignazio Silone Quotes

• An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

  Ignazio Silone

  Equality, Men, Law

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• Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

  Ignazio Silone

  Religious, Freedom, Fear

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• Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

  Ignazio Silone

  Revolution, Rebellious, Fascism

  Ignazio Silone (1963). “The School for Dictators”, New York : Atheneum

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• The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

  Ignazio Silone

  Finals, Conflict, Communist

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• Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.

  Ignazio Silone

  Struggle, Men, Liberty

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• Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we have only one life and that we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day when real life will begin. And so life passes by.

  Ignazio Silone

  Real, Waiting, Sometimes

  "The Abruzzo Trilogy".

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• On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

  Ignazio Silone

  School, Men, Civilization

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• Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

  Ignazio Silone

  Destiny, Luck, Invention

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• The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.

  Ignazio Silone

  Privilege, States, Intrigue

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• To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

  Ignazio Silone

  Growing Up, Night, Enough

  Ignazio Silone (2000). “The Abruzzo Trilogy”, Steerforth Press

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• A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war.

  Ignazio Silone

  War, Doe

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• Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.

  Ignazio Silone

  Spiritual, Struggle, Risk

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• I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.

  Ignazio Silone

  Book, Writing, Soul

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• No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.

  Ignazio Silone

  Writing, Years, Twelve

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