Ignazio Silone

Quotes by Ignazio Silone

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Politician and writer · Italian · 1900–1978

Italian politician and writer (1900–1978)

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“Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.”

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

“Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.”

“How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.”

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

“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.”

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“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.”
— Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine
democracy freedom growth self

“Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.”
— Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine
destiny life

“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.”
— Ignazio Silone
images re-writing soul writing

“How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.”
— Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine
conscience excuses intelligence

“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.”
— Ignazio Silone
Culture School Together

“An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.”
— Ignazio Silone
adversity

“Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.”
— Ignazio Silone
luck

“Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.”
— Ignazio Silone
luck