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.
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. - Ignazio Silone
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
- Ignazio Silone
Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks. - Ignazio Silone
Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men. - Ignazio Silone
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 m… - Ignazio Silone
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 m…
The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else. - Ignazio Silone
The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.
A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war. - Ignazio Silone
A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war.
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
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.
Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place. - Ignazio Silone
Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.
No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old. - Ignazio Silone
No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.
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