“How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.”
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“An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.”
Ignazio Silone“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“Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.”
Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine“How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.”
Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine“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“On a group of theories one can found a school”
but on a group of values one can found a culture.