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

- Ignazio Silone

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

- Ignazio Silone

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

- 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…

- Ignazio Silone

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

- 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.

- Ignazio Silone

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

- Ignazio Silone

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

- Ignazio Silone

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

- Ignazio Silone