Ignazio Silone Quotes

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

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• I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • Country
  • Rest
  • Realize

• Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Learn

• People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Up
  • Happy

• It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Too Much

• I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Goal
  • Senate
  • Emissions

• I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Yourself
  • Loved
  • Hated

• I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

  

  E. L. James
  • High
  • Storytelling
  • Bar

• I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Time
  • Think
  • Living

• SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Children
  • Income
  • Veterans

• I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Being
  • Part
  • Aqua

• Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Work
  • Growing

• Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Know
  • Young
  • Fame

• When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Period
  • Painting

• In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Society
  • Worth
  • Tax

• Film has always been where my heart is.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Heart
  • Film
  • Where

• I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Child
  • Theatre
  • Grateful

• It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Time
  • Power
  • Angry

• He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

  

  Charles Kingsley
  • Men
  • Power

• I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Political
  • Relationship
  • Suffering

• You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• 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
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Mistake