Ignazio Silone Quotations

A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war.

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

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

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.

Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we only have one life and we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day that our real life will begin. And so life passes by.

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

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.

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.

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.