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“An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.”
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Ignazio Silone
#Men Quotes
#Equality Quotes
#Law Quotes
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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.”
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Ignazio Silone
#Religious Quotes
#Freedom Quotes
#Fear Quotes
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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.”
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Ignazio Silone
#School Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Civilization Quotes
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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.”
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Ignazio Silone
#Book Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Soul Quotes
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“Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
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Ignazio Silone
Source : Ignazio Silone (1963). “The School for Dictators”, New York : Atheneum
#Revolution Quotes
#Fascism Quotes
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“Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.”
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Ignazio Silone
#Destiny Quotes
#Invention Quotes
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“The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.”
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Ignazio Silone
#Finals Quotes
#Conflict Quotes
#Communist Quotes
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“Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we only have one life and we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day that our real life will begin. And so life passes by.”
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Ignazio Silone
Source : "The Abruzzo Trilogy".
#Real Quotes
#Waiting Quotes
#Sometimes Quotes
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“No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.”
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Ignazio Silone
#Writing Quotes
#Years Quotes
#Twelve Quotes
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“Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.”
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Ignazio Silone
#Spiritual Quotes
#Struggle Quotes
#Risk Quotes
