Ignazio Silone

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.”

“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.”