Giuseppe Mazzini Quotes
Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.
No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.
Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.
The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.
The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.
Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.
The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.
Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.
Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.
The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life.
So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.
Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.
To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn.
Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.
Hope nothing from foreign governments. They will never be really willing to aid you until you have shown that you are strong enough to conquer without them.
The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.
God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.
Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you . . .
Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.
Shakespeare's personages live and move as if they had just come from the hand of God, with a life that, though manifold, is one, and, though complex, is harmonious.
Each of us brings with him an element, more or less important, of the life of humanity to come.
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.
