List of Ignazio Silone Quotes

No One Can Ever Write About Anything That Happened To Him After He Was Twelve Years Old.

To Grow Up Requires A Whole Life But To Become Old One Night Is Enough.

A Wrong War Brings Wrong; So Does A Right War.

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.

Spiritual Life And Secure Life Do Not Go Together; To Save Oneself On Must Struggle And Take Risks.

The State Always Stands For Swindling, Intrigue, And Privilege, And Cannot Stand For Anything Else.

Destiny Is The Invention Of The Cowardly, And The Resigned.

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.

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.

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.

The Final Conflict Will Be Between The Communists And The Ex-communists.

Fascism Was A Counter-revolution Against A Revolution That Never Took Place.