Ignazio Silone Quotes
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.
Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.
No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.
But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free.
How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.
