Ignazio Silone Quotes

Italy, Politician
May 1, 1900 – August, 22, 1978.

Ignazio Silone (Italian: [iɲˈɲattsjo siˈloːne]; 1 May 1900 – 22 August 1978) was the pseudonym of Secondino Tranquilli, a political leader, Italian novelist, and short-story writer, world famous during World War II for his powerful anti-Fascist novels. He was nominated for the Nobel prize for literature ten times.

Also known as Journalist, Playwright

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.

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 men.

Ignazio Silone
- Men
- School
- Together

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

Ignazio Silone
The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

Ignazio Silone
- Will
- Conflict
- Final
Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

Ignazio Silone
- Never
- Revolution
- Place
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
- Life
- Writing
- Book
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
- Man
- Free
- Dictatorship
Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.

Ignazio Silone
- Life
- Risks
- Secure

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

Ignazio Silone
- Years
- Write
- Twelve
To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

Ignazio Silone
- Life
- Requires
The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.

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

Ignazio Silone
- Law
- Promises
- Earthquake
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.

Ignazio Silone
- Live
- Waiting
- Vain
A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war.

Ignazio Silone
- War
- Right
- Wrong